Jodi Picoult Quotes

Every person's every action has an effect.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Everything we do affects other people.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

'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.

Everything is a reaction.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

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

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.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

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

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

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

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.