Quotes Tagged "affect"

Little things affect little minds.

Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about it. In some cases, this deadpan presentation can also be the result of cult training and brainwashing. Unfortunately, when a patient describes a traumatic experience without showing any apparent emotion, it can make the listener doubt whether the patient is telling the truth. (page 119, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit.

You affect the world by what you browse.

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

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

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.