The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system. . . than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. . . . The education of youth. . . lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success.
What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered.
I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. . . It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with, say, Greg Nicotero [The Walking Dead] in kind of, like, special makeup effects. I'd probably say, "Good with clay and latex. " Although I don't know what kind of job that'd get me.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.