Snowball Effect Quotes

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.

Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which makes it snowball further.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes--circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

The buzzer timing is so important and when you get into a rhythm like that - to go back to baseball you'll hear hitters on a hot streak say that the ball looks like a beach ball -and when you have the timing on the buzzer and you're just getting in whenever you want, that seems to sort of snowball.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that's the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that's striving to give back in a positive manner.

There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.

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

You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; when once set a rolling, it must increase.

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit, then hopefully there will be some sort of snowball effect that will be bigger and bigger.' I'm much more in favor of the top-down approach to problem-solving.