Joel A. Barker Quotes

Every person's every action has an effect.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

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.

One thing can make many other things happen.

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

Everything we do affects other people.

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

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

I think I can change the game.

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

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

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

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

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

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

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

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 live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

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'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.