Quotes about effectiveness page 5
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Vol. 3, Ch. IX, State-Tamperings with Money and Banks
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Source: Letters to a Young Conservative
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”
Robert Wright (1957) American journalist, born 1957
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=ltr_thj1489 George Washington (4 January 1786) <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Peeta to Katniss (p. 325)
Variant: I think... you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
There's Treasure Everywhere
William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
From a letter to Hermann Huth, Vice-President of the German Vegetarian Federation, 27 December 1930. Supposedly published in German magazine Vegetarische Warte, which existed from 1882 to 1935. Einstein Archive 46-756. Quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2011), [//books.google.it/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&pg=PA453 p. 453].
1930s
Context: Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
“Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart”
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Penny Jordan (1946–2011) British women's author
Source: The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.”
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Source: Where Rainbows End
William James book The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Philip Plait book Bad Astronomy
Source: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 47
Source: Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
“She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Source: Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
“The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Bk. I, ch. 4.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmZp5cgbkU <br class="br">Context: One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings — you know, creating the environment — that they spend film time on it. And you don't have to spend too much film time to create an environment. What they're doing is showing off the amount of work that they generated, and it slows the pace of the film down. And the story is not the settings. The story is the stories, plot. You're always surprised with characters, I mean in film it's even more dramatic than it is in writing, because eventually you actually take a real person and stick them into that character. And that real person brings with him, or her, an enormous package of reality. I mean, Threepio is just a hunk of plastic, and without Tony Daniels in there it just isn't anything at all. In the first film we had maybe 20 colors to paint with, and this time we've had 40 colors to paint with. Well, that doesn't mean it's going to be a better painting. Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
Source: Dialogues II
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Source: Collected Fictions
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Washington Post, October 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/exhaustion-is-not-a-status-symbol/2012/10/02/19d27aa8-0cba-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story_2.html <br class="br">Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are