I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.
Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how. '
Budget affects everything.
What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.
I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.
Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.
Our thinking absolutely affects the physical body.
Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change. . . " And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking. " And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects. . . It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations
Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.
To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones. ' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.
The way you write affects what you say.
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.
What we do as an individual affects the whole world.
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.