Happenings Quotes - Page 20

• Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

  Michael Jordan

  Mean, Important, Nervous

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• I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

  George Best

  Watches, Tvs, Found

  George Best (2012). “Blessed - The Autobiography”, p.196, Random House

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  J. Cole

  Successful, Rapper, World

  "Hot Topic: J. Cole" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

  Herta Muller

  Way, Written

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• Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

  Idries Shah

  Trying, Way, Force

  Idries Shah (1997). “The Commanding Self”, p.39, Octagon Press Ltd

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• There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Two, People

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• When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

  Thomas Schelling

  Nuclear, Unions, Today

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• I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'

  Mickie James

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Book, Looks, Wake Up

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• The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

  Edgar Schein

  Leadership, Real, Creating

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.

  Kim Garst

  Complaining, Social Media, Conversation

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• With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

  David Hoffman

  Medicine, Profound, People

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Singers, Way

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• Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

  Michael Leunig

  War, Heart, People

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• Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Helping, Help Me

  "A heart that hurts is a heart that works. I will beat my anorexia" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, Have Faith, Happens

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• There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

  George Santayana

  Regret, Real, Past

  "The Letters of George Santayana".

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

  Harrison Ford

  Army, Games, Enemy

  "‘Cowboys & Aliens’ star Harrison Ford: Most special-effects films are soulless now". herocomplex.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

  Mary Wigman

  Art, Communication, Men

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

  Nadine Gordimer

  People, Horror, Newspapers

  Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

  Michael Nesmith

  Ebay, Looks, Internet

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

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• One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Distance, Taken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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