Happenings Quotes - Page 14

• Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Positive Thinking, Eye

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• The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Truth, Believe, Mind

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• Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

  Rick Warren

  Faith, Christian, Dream

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• No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Theatre, Connections, World

  "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 09, 1966.

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• Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!

  Andy Rooney

  Inspiring, Things In Life, One Day At A Time

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• The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

  Brian Urquhart

  Money, Believe, World Government

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• Hence there are so many kinds of love and so many kinds of compassion. But the basic, the most fundamental, is to understand this three-rung ladder of love. That will help you, that will give you an insight into where you are, what kind of love you are living in and what kind of compassion is happening to you. Watch. Beware not to remain caught in it. There are higher realms, heights to be climbed, peaks to be attained.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Love You, Compassion

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• In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.

  Seymour Hersh

  Baby, Army, Iraq

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• I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

  Susan Estrich

  Years, Issues, Speech

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• I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

  Nicole Appleton

  Mean, Legs, Born

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

  Fairfield Porter

  Doe, Matter, Normal

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• Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

  Jennifer Echols

  Watches, Happens

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Forget You”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.

  Diane Coyle

  Book, Thinking, Laughing

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• You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.

  Andrew Hussie

  Running, Confused, Reality

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• The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

  Louis Kahn

  Creative, Mind, Firsts

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  The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

  Noam Chomsky

  Population, Knows

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull Press

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

  Joanna Macy

  World, Radical, Can Do

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• God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

  Richard Rohr

  Blow, Drawing, Knows

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.61, Loyola Press

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• There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Realizing, Witness

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• If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Block, Inspiration

  "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

  Ed Seykota

  Order, Surfing, Dynamics

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• Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

  Chad Kroeger

  Writing, Wind, Sometimes

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. ... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.

  John Welwood

  Spiritual, Communication, Mean

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