Bruce Barton Quotes

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.

Every person's every action has an effect.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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.

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

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

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

I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

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

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

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

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.

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

In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we force them.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.