Make Things Happen Quotes - Page 2

• People who live in the now; those people make things happen.

  Cesar Millan

  People, Live In The Now, Happens

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• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

  Seth

  Order, Differences, People

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• I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

  Dolly Parton

  Happens, Happenings, Things Happen

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

  Victoria Gray Adams

  Moving, Order, Civil Rights

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• The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

  Sallust

  Stars, Father, Taken

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• In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

  Michael Vick

  Moving, Pockets, East

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• I believe you have to make things happen.

  Clemence Poesy

  Believe, Happens, I Believe

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Metropolis

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Spiritual, Yes You Can, Long

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• I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

  Diane Paulus

  People, Levels, Epiphany

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

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• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

  Vera Farmiga

  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

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• I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

  Howard Nemerov

  Political, Literature, Want

  1988 In the International Herald Tribune,14 Oct. SeeAuden 40:2.

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• Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

  Richard Wright

  World, Sake, Environment

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Class, People, Achievement

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• There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

  Hugh Prather

  Action, Happens, Things Happen

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.79, Conari Press

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• All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Cameras, Needs, Happens

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• If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

  Ormond McGill

  Success, Trying, Happens

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• I can make things happen when plays break down.

  Vince Young

  Play, Breaking Down, Happens

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• I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

  Mary Harron

  Stars, Good Luck, Long

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Purpose, Life Is, Plans

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• September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, School, Voice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.325, Macmillan

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• I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

  Chevy Chase

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  "Fictional character: Ty Webb". "Caddyshack", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Life Changing, Communication

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• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

  Sean O Faolain

  Reality, Imagination, Intense

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