Happens Quotes - Page 39

• Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

  Horace Dediu

  Fall, Apples, Missing

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• I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

  Jim Burke

  People, Found, Prove

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• Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

  Ennio Morricone

  Writing, Used, Score

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Optimistic, Impact, People

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• Relationships happen in experiences.

  Nathan Shedroff

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• Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.

  Darren Walker

  Opportunity, Cities, America

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them.

  Nathan Winograd

  Animal, Shelter, May

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• To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

  Jerry Kramer

  Ovation, Kind, Offensive Lineman

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• I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

  Tony Dungy

  Player, Reality, Names

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• I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

  Emilie Autumn

  Next, Repeats, Fascinated

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• If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

  Shawn Fanning

  Successful, Musician, Doe

  "The Music Swapper: Shawn Fanning". From Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. August 01, 2005.

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• I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Want, Recognition

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• Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

  Timothy Keller

  Good Things, Idolatry, Ultimate

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• I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Home, Thinking

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• At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.

  Steve Smith, Sr.

  The End Of The Day, Groups, Ends

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• Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.

  Anuradha Koirala

  Strength, Daughter, Children

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• Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

  Sue Miller

  Jesus, Kids, Needs

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

  Terry Brooks

  Character, Four, Want

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• Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion.

  Leigh Newman

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  "9 Almost Impossible Dreams You Can Never Give Up On" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• No one will ever make necessity not happen.

  Anne Carson

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• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Winning, Presidential

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• Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Needs, Littles, Madness

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Believe, Pages

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.64, e-artnow

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