Happenings Quotes - Page 19

• Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

  Michael Jordan

  Mean, Important, Nervous

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• I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

  George Best

  Watches, Tvs, Found

  George Best (2012). “Blessed - The Autobiography”, p.196, Random House

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• Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Home, Trying, Complicated

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

  J. Cole

  Successful, Rapper, World

  "Hot Topic: J. Cole" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

  Herta Muller

  Way, Written

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• Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

  Henry Cloud

  Writing, Long, Stories

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2013

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

  Gordon Parks

  Color, White, People

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• The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

  X. J. Kennedy

  Purpose

  X. J. Kennedy (2002). “The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2001”, p.5, JHU Press

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• Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.

  Sam Keen

  Teacher, Blessing, Expectations

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• Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

  Idries Shah

  Trying, Way, Force

  Idries Shah (1997). “The Commanding Self”, p.39, Octagon Press Ltd

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• There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Phonogram was explicitly about our world. It’s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those who’ve fallen into its world. In a real way, it’s real. Conversely, W+D is much more overt. The appearance of the gods changes the world, and has changed the world going back. There’s the strong implication that certain figures in our world simply didn’t exist in The Wicked And The Divine‘s world, because they were replaced by a god.

  Kieron Gillen

  Strong, Real, Our World

  "The Wicked + The Divine: The Entire Creative Team Talks Story, Art, Design, Color, Letters + Music". Interview with Patrick A. Reed, comicsalliance.com. June 18, 2014.

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• When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

  Thomas Schelling

  Nuclear, Unions, Today

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• I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'

  Mickie James

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

  Charlotte Selver

  Always Trying, People, Moments

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• The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

  Kasey Keller

  Soccer, Football, Art

  "Last night's TV" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2006.

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• Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Book, Looks, Wake Up

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• The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

  Edgar Schein

  Leadership, Real, Creating

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Vectors, Circus

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• Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.

  Kim Garst

  Complaining, Social Media, Conversation

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• With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

  David Hoffman

  Medicine, Profound, People

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• There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

  Ruben Blades

  New Orleans, Vices, Musician

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• If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Believe, Evil, Achievement

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• She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up. The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, "Let go-it's my onion," and as soon as she said, "my onion," the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

  E. M. Forster

  Letting Go, Angel, Flames

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