William P. Young Quotes

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

Some dramatic event often crystallizes popular attention, and the world turns on a dime.

I had no idea about how my life would change after 'Fukrey.'

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Every person's every action has an effect.

'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.

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.

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

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

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.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Everything...affects everything

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.