Abraham Verghese Quotes

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Every person's every action has an effect.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

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.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

No action is without its side effects.

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.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

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.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

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

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

Little hinges swing big doors.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.