Jay Asher Quotes

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

Your legacy makes a difference.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.