Primary Cause Quotes

#1. Technology is important - you can't remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.

James C. Collins

#2. Coincidence, Jim, is just a word superstitious people use to describe complex events that in truth are the mathematically inevitable consequences of a primary cause. - Michael quoting Mr. Spock

Dean Koontz

#3. Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.

Rhonda Byrne

#4. Unconscious motivating forces play a central role in shaping our behavior, but they are also the primary cause of mental illness.

Christian Jarrett

#5. [M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do; for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it?

Vincent De Paul

#6. Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname 'the other carbon problem.' As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible consequences.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#7. The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#8. The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Joel Fuhrman

#9. And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for a time, hate or love, if only not to sit with your hands folded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.

Antoine Bechamp

#12. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.

Evan Sutter

#13. The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

Ayn Rand

#14. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

Mark Fuhrman

#15. The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

Carl Jung

#16. Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

Abdu'l- Baha

#17. The one First or Primary Cause is God. God is First; He has no cause or causes of Himself; He is un produced; He is not an effect.

Paul J. Glenn

#18. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#20. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#21. The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

Tony Evans

#22. The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

Joseph J. Romm

#23. A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Niklaus Wirth

#24. The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.

Jenny McCarthy

#25. There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

Rose McGowan

#26. Treatment of depression or sleep disorders, whether a primary cause of fatigue or secondary to a medical disorder, may be beneficial. Withdrawal

Dan L. Longo

#27. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

David Lloyd-Jones

#28. The primary challenge for any aspiring public office bearer is to have a well-defined cause and diligently represent that cause until a significant impact is witnessed. Adhering to value-based leadership principles must be at the top of the priority list for public office aspirants.

Archibald Marwizi

#29. I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Richard D. James

#30. To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Namkhai Norbu

#31. There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

Jack McDevitt

#32. Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Aristotle.

#33. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes