Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

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

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.

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

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

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.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

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.

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Everything we do affects other people.

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.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Every person's every action has an effect.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

'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.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.