Make Things Happen Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Player, People

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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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• 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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• The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

  Marina Warner

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, School, Voice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.325, Macmillan

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• If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

  RuPaul

  Dream, Believe, Pie

  "Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style". Book by RuPaul, 2010.

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, Responsibility

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

  Cesar Millan

  People, Live In The Now, Happens

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• All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Cameras, Needs, Happens

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