Make Things Happen Quotes - Page 5

• You need to be a person who makes things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Needs, Persons, Happens

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• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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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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• 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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• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  A. A. Milne

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Happens, Things Happen

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• Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Change, Life Changing, Taken For Granted

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• If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

  Erin Kelly

  Clothes, Half, Way

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• I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people.

  Mike Bibby

  People, Shots, Happens

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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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• My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

  Arthur Blank

  Jobs, Player, Agency

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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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• If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

  Ormond McGill

  Success, Trying, Happens

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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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