Sidney Poitier Quotes

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Everything we do affects other people.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

Things always happen in series.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

Everything is a reaction.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Unintended Consequences

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.