Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

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.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

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

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

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

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

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.

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

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

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.