Quotes about affect
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“…We carry ourselves different — maybe we tell our jokes in a different way or a different style — and we were beating ourselves up in allowing that patriarchal energy to affect our self-esteem. And then I was like, "Yeah, I'm good at this job."”

Phoebe Robinson (1984) American comedian

On how female comedians might initially doubt themselves in “Phoebe Robinson: There's No Excuse For The Lack Of Diversity In Comedy” https://www.npr.org/2018/10/15/657459180/comic-phoebe-robinson-theres-no-excuse-for-hollywoods-lack-of-diversity in NPR (2018 Oct 15)

Way, Self-confidence

“You are the pure magic of rediscovering the joy of loving, the effort of resisting you, the splendor of an affection born day after day in the silence of everyday life, which now shines with a violent and vital light that reflects on everything around me. All this... it's love for you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Sei la pura magia di ritrovare la gioia di amare, la fatica di resisterti, lo splendore di un affetto nato giorno dopo giorno nel silenzio della quotidianità, che ora splende di una luce violenta e vitale che si riflette su tutto ciò che mi sta intorno. Tutto questo... è amore per te.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Making love, Effort

“Any emotion affects our thoughts, our beliefs and our actions. Strong positive emotions exert great power over the human body and the whole world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Qualsiasi emozione influisce sui nostri pensieri, le nostre credenze e le nostre azioni. Le forti emozioni positive esercitano un grande potere sul corpo umano e sul mondo intero.
Source: prevale.net

World, Strong

“The secret of success is understanding what it can affect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il segreto del successo è capire ciò che può colpire.
Source: prevale.net

Secret, Understanding, Success

“Law and order are the privilege of the poor. So far as they affect the rich they are the restraint of the rich. It is for all those who are interested in the industry and commerce of this country, not for those who are interested merely in fixed capital and the leisurely enjoyment of its fruits, to struggle to maintain the idea of the supremacy of the law.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Speech to the Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Oxford (23 November 1887), quoted in The Times (24 November 1887), p. 7
1880s

Law, Idea, Country

“We should keep in mind that in this country there is a general discrimination against minorities and the poorest workers. It is a widespread mentality which can also affect this tragedy. The fact that the rich are better off than the poor, having saved their own land, is a serious matter which the government must address.”

Max Rodrigues French fencer

Pakistan: some Christians denied aid unless they convert to Islam https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7460 (September 6, 2010)

Country

“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don't see the person it affects. We don't see their face. We don't see them as people. Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind. Because if white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. We live in a world where we don't see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don't live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off. If we could see one another's pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

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Born a Crime

Pain, People, World, Personality

“Surround yourself with people who are not in the business. And it’s do things that has nothing to do with your career. I’m really attracted to things that are genuine. The more time you spend with genuine people—the more it affects you and make you feel more normal in this crazy business.”

Odeya Rush (1997) Israeli actress

Almost Friends: Odeya Rush On The Attraction To Romantic Love Stories And Indies https://lrmonline.com/news/odeya-rush-interview/ (November 29, 2017)

People, Making love, Feeling, Business

“Regular people joined by a common link. Death, it affected all people, all occupations. Accountants, cooks, realtors, secretaries. A support group for all to grieve. Doctors, the unemployed, teenagers. Dying could happen to anyone.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

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Novels, Drama Dolls (2015)

Death, People, Support, Cooking

“Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Friendship, Animals

“As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 741)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

Fate, People, Imagination

“One of the effects, among others, of modern science has been that of mortally wounding religion by posing in concrete terms problems which esoterism alone can resolve and which remain unresolved because esoterism is not heeded and is heeded less now than ever. Faced by these new problems, religion is disarmed, and it borrows clumsily and gropingly the arguments of the enemy, and this obliges it to falsify its own perspective imperceptibly and disavow itself more and more; its doctrine is certainly not affected, but false opinions borrowed from its repudiators corrode it insidiously "from within", as witnessed by modernist exegesis, the demagogic leveling of the liturgy, Teilhardian Darwinism or the "sacred art" of surrealist and "abstract" persuasion.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2006, Light on the Ancient Worlds, World Wisdom, 27, 978-0-941532-72-3]
Miscellaneous, Religion

Religion, Art, Problem, Science

“The impoverishment of economics related to its distancing from ethics affects both welfare economics (narrowing its reach and relevance) and predictive economics”

Amartya Sen (1933) Indian economist

weakening its behavioural foundations
Chap. 2 : Economic Judgements and Moral Philosophy
1990s, On Ethics and Economics (1991)

“It takes less effort to stream a film at home these days. However, streaming should not fundamentally affect how a film is made, as long as the pleasure of watching films doesn’t change, and we as filmmakers continue to serve that purpose.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

"5 Questions for Wong Kar Wai" in Notebook Feature (19 March 2021) https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/5-questions-for-wong-kar-wai

Pleasure, Home, Effort, Change

“Of course, people are more affected by actors or acting. But as a filmmaker, I need some logic. And this was my logic in making these two films, and how I connected these stories and these films together. People say my films don’t have any plot or storyline, but in my logic there is a storyline.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

"Wong Kar-wai by Han Ong" in Bomb Magazine (1 Janaury 1998) https://bombmagazine.org/articles/wong-kar-wai-1/

People

“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized. Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a man’s life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 4

Life, Knowledge

“In a relationship, the word 'sorry' is worth more than gold. However, the more it's mentioned the lesser your love and affection becomes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“You will never find rest, but pure affection once you fall in love with a woman who truly loves you back.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“Jealousy is the fuel of relationships and marriage. At the same time, envy kills affection in love.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Marriage, Jealousy, Time

“Education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him. It doesn't just train the mind: it's a social and moral development too.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

Education, Personality, Training

“In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

World, Literature, Reading, Parting

“You may have your own wisdom but that wisdom is nothing compared to the wisdom of God who appointed you as the King over his people therefore you need to call on him before you take any decision that affect the people”

Joseph Edra Ukpo (1937) Nigerian priest (1937–2023)

Corruption impeding fight against Boko Haram – Arch Bishop https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/corruption-impeding-fight-boko-haran-arch-bishop/ (May 19, 2014)

Wisdom, God, People, Decision

“I’d also like to say to our priests: we can’t fail to talk to our people about these real sins that affect the lives of our people. If we talk about sins they don’t commit, of what good is that?”

Joseph Fred Naumann (1949) Catholic archbishop

Archbishop Naumann: “If the Church is silent on the destruction of life, we’re being negligent” https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/12/04/archbishop-naumann-if-the-church-is-silent-on-the-destruction-of-life-were-being-negligent/ (December 4, 2017)

People

“The climate system takes decades to respond to changes in carbon emissions so decisions made now will affect future generations - for better or worse.”

Joanna Haigh (1954) British physicist

"Imperial climate experts respond to IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report" https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/161770/imperial-climate-experts-respond-ipccs-fifth/, Imperial College London (November 3, 2014)

Decision, Change, Future

“No serious student of human behavior denies the potent influence of evolved biology upon our cultural lives. Our struggle is to figure out how biology affects us, not whether it does.”

Stephen Jay Gould book An Urchin in the Storm

Source: An Urchin in the Storm (1987) "Nurturing Nature", p. 152

Behavior

“In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 33

“Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book I, 8

Fraud, Nature, Envy

“They say that comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite. I'm always creating and writing stuff so it's nice for me to be able to watch it as a fan.”

Mike Myers (1963) Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer

Interview with Joe Utichi, RT-UK: Mike Myers Interview https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/rtuk-mike-myers-interview/, rottentomatoes.com, 27 June 2007.

“Since our Lord, who gave Fernando to us, wished to have him back, we must bend to His will and thank Him and beg Him to protect what is left. With great affection, my lady, I beg you to do this and to forget and leave behind all pain and grief.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

Pain, Forgetting

“I no longer make recommendations; they are forwarded to me and I have to make the final decisions without hesitation. I cannot afford to procrastinate because decisions made in central banking have to be definitive since they affect the entire nation—the rich, the not-so rich, and the poor.”

Linah Mohohlo (1952–2021) Botswana banker

Source: "In On the Ground Floor" (December 2004)

Decision

“Volcanic ash, despite the name, is dense as rock and can cause significant damage to structures, power lines and communications. It is also toxic because it contains chemicals such as sulfur, chlorine or fluorine, and it can therefore affect water supplies.”

Marco Brenna researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-6096-6999

Source: Marco Brenna (2022) cited in: " Force ‘astonishing’: volcanologist https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/force-%E2%80%98astonishing%E2%80%99-volcanologist" in Otago Daily Times, 17 January 2022.

Communication, Water

“Of all our feigned affections, there is none
So hollow, selfish, and injurious,
As what we christen Patriotism.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 15.

Selfishness

“This is called the World Breath or ‘Seven’ Breath, and was much practised by the ancient Egyptians who were adepts at physical and physiological culture. Seven, as you know, plays an important part in the plan of the Universe which affects tnis Earth, as for instance, the 7 planets, 7 colours of the spectrum, 7 notes of music, 7 days of the week, etc. If we practise the Seven Breath every morning on awakening, we will tune ourselves in to the forces of growth and progress and derive great benefit and strength from so doing, provided we neither strain nor jerk.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

World, Music, Jerk, Universe

“Experiencing oneself as Life does is to enjoy oneself [jouir de soi]. Enjoyment does not presuppose any differences similar to those in which the world is born: it is homogeneous phenomenological material, a monolithic affective body whose phenomenality is affectivity as such. The self-revelation of Life is not a formal structure that can be conceived on the basis of “outside oneself” and in terms of its own structures, since these are bypassed, overcome while being maintained in this very bypassing. The self-revelation of life is its enjoyment, the primordial self-enjoyment that defines the essence of Living and thus of God himself. According to Christianity, God is Love. Love is nothing other than the self-revelation of God understood as in its pathetic phenomenological essence, specifically, the self-enjoyment of absolute Life. This is why the Love of God is the infinite love in which he eternally loves himself, and the revelation of God is none other than this Love.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Source: Michel Henry, I am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, translated by Susan Emanuel, Stanford University Press, 2003, p. 30

Love, Life, God, World

“There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection.”

Roger Scruton (1944–2020) English philosopher

The Meaning of Conservatism (2001), p. 193

Personality

“Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.”

Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)

Pain

“Aggressive marketing of war affects people and they start thinking that war is acceptable. Governments and their propaganda supporters are fully responsible for the militaristic rhetoric on state-owned television channels.”

Dmitry Muratov (1961) Russian journalist and television presenter

War, People, Support, Thinking

“Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

The Gospel of Wealth 1906

Men, Children

“If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who can most generously receive.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 6, p. 74.

Women

“Nothing can exist without ceasing to exist as the present exists only once in a lifetime.
The essence of life is the eternity of change experienced, perceived and affected by and from the consciousness of matter transpiring from the energy of life’s creations directed towards its true love(desires)”

Boukabyegga

Love, Life, Change

“…I have not even been nominated for one. But it doesn’t affect me any more. This is the great thing about getting old: things that preoccupied you when you were young cease to preoccupy you. I would have loved to have had one Oscar. Well, too bad. I have six sheep, two dogs, two children.”

Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker

On how she never won an Oscar like her mother Ingrid in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)

Love, Children, Dogs

“What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name? How well, with what fatal results, religion erects totems, and how willing we are to kill for them! And when we've done it often enough, the deadening of affect that results makes it easier to do it again.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

World, Religion

“Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Whose glosses do not blind our reason, but
Make it to see the clearer, and who shut
Its passages from hatred, avarice,
Pride, factions, covenants, and all sort of vice.
Come, settle here a charitable faith,
Which neighbourly affection nourisheth.
And whose light chaseth all corrupters hence,
Of the blest word, from the aforesaid sense.

The holy sacred Word,
May it always afford
T' us all in common,
Both man and woman,
A spiritual shield and sword,
The holy sacred Word.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.

Faith, Sense, Light

“Burns's gifts, expressed in conversation, are the theme of all that ever heard him. All kinds of gifts: from the gracefulest utterances of courtesy, to the highest fire of passionate speech; loud floods of mirth, soft wailings of affection, laconic emphasis, clear piercing insight; all was in him.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

Passion

“More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada.
So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Books, World, Law, Dogs

“Respect is the first form of affection towards anyone.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il rispetto è la prima forma d'affetto verso chiunque.
Source: prevale.net

“Currently, what is expected is that a person does not get emotionally aroused or dysregulated, is not emotionally phased or affected by anything someone else does or does not do, does not blame anyone for what they do or don’t do that causes emotional harm and especially does not defend themselves from emotional harm. What is glorified in society is emotional neutrality/numbness… Not having emotions.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Personality

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Fear, Feeling, Nature

“Only those who realize their own capacities and qualities are not affected by the opinions of others. Be careful, because those who praise are not entirely sincere. Those who criticize are mostly out of envy, jealousy and malice.”

Titon Rahmawan

Jealousy, Envy, Sincerity

“One of the most beautiful sensations one can experience every day is warn love, affection, respect, care, protection and consideration. Being there remains the most noble act that exists.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Una delle sensazioni più belle che si possano provare ogni giorno è avvertire amore, affetto, rispetto, cura, protezione e considerazione. Esserci resta l’atto più nobile che esista.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Beauty

“We never realize the importance of a social circle, until we feel how much it affects us.”

Titon Rahmawan

Feeling

“Life communicates in a strange way: it does so through signals and codes. You think you already know them all, but you don't. Each person who enters your life teaches you a new word: affection, friendship, trust, competition, success, love, pleasure, respect, longing, loneliness, courage, betrayal, disappointment…. My favourite words have always been love, pleasure, respect and trust; the last one I learnt was courage.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vita comunica in modo strano: lo fa attraverso segnali e codici. Pensate di conoscerli già tutti, ma non è così. Ogni persona che entra nella vostra vita vi insegna una nuova parola: affetto, amicizia, fiducia, competizione, successo, amore, piacere, rispetto, desiderio, solitudine, coraggio, tradimento, delusione... . Le mie parole preferite sono sempre state amore, piacere, rispetto e fiducia; l'ultima che ho imparato è stata coraggio.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Friendship, Pleasure

“It's necessary to learn to value our time and to share it exclusively with people who deserve our friendship, love, affection and respect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È necessario imparare a dar valore al nostro tempo e a condividerlo esclusivamente con persone che meritano la nostra amicizia, il nostro amore, affetto e rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Friendship, People, Learning

“Always take care of who dedicate their time to you in smiles, listening, affection and respect. It's rare. Very rare.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Abbiate sempre cura di chi vi dedica il suo tempo in sorrisi, ascolto, affetto e rispetto. È raro. Molto raro.
Source: prevale.net

Smile, Time

“It's important to pay close attention to listening to a story, because a partial or distorted narrative of the facts, could lead to hate those who are innocent and to nourish affection for those who are hypocritical or false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È importante prestare molta attenzione all'ascolto di un racconto, perché una narrazione parziale o distorta dei fatti, potrebbe indurre a odiare chi è innocente e a nutrire affetto per chi è ipocrita o falso.
Source: prevale.net

Hate, Falseness

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Hate, Falseness

“Any authentic gesture of affection: it's spontaneous.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Qualsiasi autentico gesto d'affetto: è spontaneo.
Source: prevale.net

“The true value of a person doesn't reside in what he possesses, but in the gift of his actions: presence, attention, affection and respect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero valore di una persona non risiede in ciò che possiede, ma nel dono delle sue azioni: presenza, attenzione, affetto e rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Personality

“Important relationships easily overcome distance when they are constantly fueled by care, presence, attention, affection and respect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le relazioni importanti superano facilmente la distanza quando sono costantemente alimentate da cura, presenza, attenzione, affetto e rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

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