Norman Lear Quotes

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

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Every person's every action has an effect.

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

Little hinges swing big doors.

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.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

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

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

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.

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

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

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

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.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

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.

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

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.