Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

Life itself is exponential.

Make the small big and the few many.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which makes it snowball further.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

a small spark can start a great fire

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.

Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.