Chain Reactions Quotes

• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Wade Boggs

  Positive, Attitude, Ties

  "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.

  Rachel Scott

  Compassion, Way, Columbine

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

  Colin Beavan

  Reactions, Chains, Knows

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• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Discovery, Organization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

  Leon Brown

  Change For The Better, Positive Change, Chains

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• The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

  David J. Schwartz

  Impossible, Chains, Prove

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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• While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.

  R. Keith Sawyer

  Creativity, Ideas, Sparks

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• When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Yoga

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• The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Ease, Way

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

  Jerome Groopman

  Doubt, Next, Moments

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• Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Opposites, Heaven, Stripes

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• A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.

  Craig Groeschel

  Hands, Impact, Keys

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

  Eminem

  Brain, Causes, Paper

  Song: Infinite, Album: Infinite

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• Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

  Martin Rees

  Together, Atoms, Earth

  Martin J. Rees (2003). “Our final century: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on Earth and beyond”, Vintage

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• And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Past, Reality, Cells

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• You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure from one of pain. Sometimes, we can barely read pain. Neither a barometer nor a guide, pain can mislead us. Even in the body, the laws of chain reactions can be false. This is why people always want a second opinion.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Pain, Law, Mislead Us

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• The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in such a way that the uneasiness only gets worse. The message here is that the only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, learn to stay with the itch and urge of shenpa, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule our lives, and the patterns that we consider unhelpful don't keep getting stronger as the days and months and years go by.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Years, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.

  Richard Price

  Running, Character, Writing

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• The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

  Albert Goldman

  Levels, Mood, Selling

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• When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.

  Stephen King

  War, Dirty, White

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Children, Japan, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.

  Richard Cushing

  Running, Peace, Men

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Down And, Way

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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