#effect

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#doorstep #effect #events #hell #light

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. ↗

— John Mica

#behavior #bloated #bureaucracy #countries #detection

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bad habits #before #born #could #created

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#begin #change #did #effect #faith

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#before #determination #done #effective #energy

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Peace is a natural effect of trade. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#natural #peace #trade

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#climate #climate change #dramatic #effect #ground

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#comment #effect #four #hard #hundred

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#effects #game #game music #incorporate #music