Things Happen Quotes - Page 17

• One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Distance, Taken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Art, Meditation, Relaxation

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Mean, Numbers, Might

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• One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Believe, Disappear, Happens

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• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, People, Roles

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• So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

  Kathy Ireland

  Powerful, People, Make Things Happen

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• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  Sam Shepard

  Play, Three, Half

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Fashion, Thinking, Careers

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Player

  "Mike Singletary: short fuse and short leash" by David White, www.sfgate.com. October 10, 2010.

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• I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Insane, Mets

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2001.

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• With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

  Margot Kidder

  Crazy, Eye, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

  Ned Beauman

  Book, Writing, Important

  "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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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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• I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

  Clint Black

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Philosophy, Two

  Interview with Evelyn Mcdonnell, www.interviewmagazine.com.

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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• Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

  Jan Brewer

  Done, Sometimes, God Has A Plan

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• I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  People, Talent, Relentless

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• Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.

  Linwood Barclay

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Mother, Husband, Sorry

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time.

  Saskia de Brauw

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

  T Bone Burnett

  Play, Records, I've Learned

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• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  Tammy Bruce

  Running, People, Effort

  "Tuesday's Tea Party revolution". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

  Dennis Crowley

  Bored, Sketching, Dodgeball

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