Affect Quotes

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

Important, Gift, Emotions

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

Quality, Highest, Arts

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.
Bob Dylan

Bad, Nothing, Voice

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

Attitude, Successful, Else

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mean, Him, Wish

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Powerful, Brave

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Worst, Tyranny

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone

Mind, Repetition, Verbal

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Change, Music

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono

Positive, Anger, Angry

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Experience, Act, Anxiety

Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi

Career, Said, Wrong

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot

Rather, Belief, Sincerity

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

Computers, Nice, Rich

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
Steven Morrissey

Life, Age, Live

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friends, Forgive, Ourselves

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey

Made, Rich, Big

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

Government, Important, Big

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

Again, Act, Occurring

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
Cameron Diaz

Life, Time, Business

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna

Knowledge, Yourself, Live

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Living, Dead

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge, Wise, Ignorance

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
Tim Tebow

Work, Focus, Single

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Carl Lewis

Life, Best, Sports

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.
Alanis Morissette

Energy, Become, Place

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul

Men, Woman, Others

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Jeff Bridges

Society, Cool, Goes

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