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

  Cesar Millan

  People, Live In The Now, Happens

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• My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

  Derek Hough

  New York, Fun, Spring

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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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• There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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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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• 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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• What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

  Robertson Davies

  Business, Men, Luck

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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• [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

  Danah Zohar

  Volunteer, Agents, World

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• There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, People, Watches

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises.

  Glen E. Morrell

  Army, Difficult Situations, Ncos

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• You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

  Jo Walton

  Real, Class, People

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.64, Macmillan

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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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• Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

  Shakti Gawain

  Practice, Trying, Way

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.13, New World Library

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• Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Mean, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.82, Penguin

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