Make Things Happen Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Tools, Use

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• The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Growing Up, Russia, People

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• Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

  Bobby Seale

  Hate, Mediums, Crap

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• Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Want, Happens, Things Happen

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, 'Ask, and it is given,' there is no more powerful statement that is at the basis of what makes things happen than that. Now, how is it that you think you ask? With your words? The Universe doesn't hear your words. You ask with your desire. The desire that is born out of the contrast. That desire. That wanting. That's what summons the Life Force.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Leader, May, Common

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub

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