Direct Effect Quotes

#1. Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.

Tom DeMarco

#2. But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

Hugh Mackay

#3. Appearances are really just manifestations of how we see ourselves. And so, with that in mind, the way you see yourself, well, it has a direct effect on what you become, and how others see you.

Alyson Noel

#4. Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Derek Bok

#5. The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Oren Moverman

#6. Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

Don Aitkin

#7. The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.

Benjamin Creme

#8. The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Constantin Stanislavski

#9. Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Beverly Sills

#10. Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Jane Fonda

#11. I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

#12. You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Jack Herer

#13. Any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Theodore Annemann

#14. The new race of warriors would be their hope, their salvation, their loves' destiny. But they too could be tainted. They too could be seduced by the black forces they had been created to fight against.

Madison Thorne Grey

#15. Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

#16. She used every emotional experience as if it were a scrap of material that could be pieced together to make a wonderful dress; she wasted nothing of what she felt, and when in control of those tumultuous feelings she was able to focus and direct her incredible poetic energy to great effect.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Mary-Jean Harris

#18. Doctors are allowed to tell us things which they might not do themselves. They know what the right thing is, but they may not be able to do it themselves. That does not mean that their advice is bad advice.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished..

John F. Kennedy

#21. Whether the psychological effect of color is direct ... or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

Wassily Kandinsky

#22. Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.

Deborah Smith

#23. Make your life a monument of visions. Serving, caring, and sharing are the passions.

Debasish Mridha

#24. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

Jamie Tworkowski

#25. Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

Frank Pierson

#26. The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

Kobe Bryant

#27. He chuckled. "Be focused. Direct all your thoughts to one point. Let the prayers take effect. Let them change you into a new person, Tamar. Just like Moses, after forty days of talking to God on Sinai, became a new being." The tabby crept past and squeezed between his legs.

Ruchama King Feuerman

#28. I'm the most unlikely person when it comes to fashion. I don't really have much sense of it.

Travis Fimmel

#29. Have you had a chance to talk with your colleagues?
Talk? We don't talk. They dictate. I tell them to fuck off.

Larissa Ione

#30. Where do the ducks go in the winter?

J.D. Salinger

#31. you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.

Lynne Truss

#32. I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Jon Heder

#33. You try to be a nice guy, but girls just have to be stubborn about it. Then they complain chivalry is dead. Screw that.

Becca Ann

#34. My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Gareth Bale

#35. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

Gautama Buddha

#36. It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

Frederick Lenz

#37. I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Anais Nin