Butterfly Effect Quotes

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

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

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.

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Every person's every action has an effect.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

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

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.