Things Happen Quotes - Page 11

• When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Roots, Tragedy, Done

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• That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

  Artie Shaw

  Sex, Keys, Trying

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Ideas, Fabric, Happens

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Thinking, Good Things, Middle

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• I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are a lot more shades of gray in this world than I ever knew about. I’ve learned that sometimes, when you´re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. And finally, I’ve learned that life isn’t really about failure and success. It’s about being present, in the moment when big things happen, when everything changes, including myself.

  Cynthia Hand

  Moving Forward, Fire, Weather

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Yesterday, Why Not, Today

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• The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year.
  There´s no sign of growth.
  Not even a hint.
  The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year.
  And then the third year.
  The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year,
  but nothing shows. No growth. No anything.
  For eight years it can continue. Eight years!
  Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

  Zig Ziglar

  Eight, Years, Feet

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• Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

  Al Ries

  Focus, Good Things, Happens

  "The Classic Mistake" by Al Ries, ries.typepad.com. June 2009.

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• Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

  Dave Ramsey

  Focus, Trying, Steps

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• Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

  John Coltrane

  John Coltrane's address to pianist Mccoy Tyner before studio version of "Dearly Beloved", 1964.

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• Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

  Roy T. Bennett

  People, Good Things, Surround Yourself

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• There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

  Dan Millman

  Watches, Wonder, Make Things Happen

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.292, H J Kramer

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• Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Karma, Mean, Thinking

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

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• Synchronicites . It's been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: 'I don't want anything. I'm going to let things happen'

  Lana Del Rey

  Divinity, Want, Way

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• Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Blessing, Perspective, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 26, 2015

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• If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mind, Spirit

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• That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

  Mariano Rivera

  Baseball, Games, Happens

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• Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Writing, Character

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• When you work hard, good things happen

  Allen Iverson

  Hard Work, Good Things, Happens

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• A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Play, Feelings

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

  Laozi

  Wise, Believe, Heart

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• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Attitude, Accepting

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

  David Campese

  Games, Likes, Rugby

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