Make Things Happen Quotes - Page 4

• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  Dave Ulrich

  Dedication, People, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Lazy, Arena

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You flip the switch. Flip the switch and go into work mode. You're a professional, so be a professional. You can take care of your problems later, but you still have to go to work. You still have to make things happen. One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

  Donald Faison

  Bad Day, Years, One Day

  Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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• I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.

  Dan Chaon

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Luck

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Ideas, Citizens

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• In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Dream, Wish, Consciousness

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

  Frederick Buechner

  Magic, Clear, Happens

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 08, 2017

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discipline, Secret, Use

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• People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Sports, Believe

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• The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, Groups, Watches

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• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

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• You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

  J. B. Smoove

  Waiting, Happens, Things Happen

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• We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

  Robin Sharma

  Reality, Giving, Want

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• I cannot tell you how many times guides have said to me, "Please tell them to stop praying to me. I can't make things happen. I can't protect them from going through challenging experiences. These are experiences their soul has chosen to go through. I'm here to keep them on their path, but I don't want them to give me all this attention or power or focus." Realistically, the guides I work with are really encouraging people to find their inner voice.

  Echo Bodine

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

  Jonathan Raban

  Loneliness, Essentials, Happens

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Dream, Husband, Believe

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• I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

  Angie Martinez

  Games, People, Culture

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?

  Herman Cain

  People, Watches, Wells

  "Historic!!! Republican Presidential Hopeful, Herman Cain, Currently Leading in Polls, Speaks With Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein of CYInterview: Agrees With Getting Washington to Lead By Example, Having the President, Vice President and Congress Take a Substantial Pay Cut, Much More". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. October 8, 2011.

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• Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.

  Herman Cain

  People, Priorities, Leader

  "Historic!!! Republican Presidential Hopeful, Herman Cain, Currently Leading in Polls, Speaks With Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein of CYInterview: Agrees With Getting Washington to Lead By Example, Having the President, Vice President and Congress Take a Substantial Pay Cut, Much More". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. October 8, 2011.

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• President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

  Chuck Grassley

  Fighting, President, Kind

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• Let's say you're auditioning for a part or you're going for a job you really want. You have to go in with a sense of self or you're not going to get the job. You need your ego to get what it is that you want to make things happen in your life.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Jobs, Self, Ego

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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