Happenings Quotes - Page 28

• These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, People, Fuel

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• I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

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• There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

  Tony Abbott

  Mean, Damn, Just One

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2006.

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• In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

  Gideon Glick

  People, Collaboration, Pieces

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think it's very important to support your friends and to stay current with what's happening.

  Gideon Glick

  Thinking, Support, Important

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.

  Francis Collins

  Night, Generations, Next

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Culture, Looks

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• No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Helping, Life Is, Grows

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• Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Information Flow, Mind

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• Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Self, Worthy

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

  Margaret Mead

  Leisure, Feels, Stills

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Design, Connections, Movement

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• All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

  Jim Carrey

  Decisions We Make, Choices, Path

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• Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

  Lewis Thomas

  Lucky, Wit, Accidents

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• Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Order, Giving

  "Britain rules out Heathrow closure". www.cnn.com. February 12, 2003.

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• We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Art, Expression, Ongoing

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• You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

  Michael Beckwith

  Life, Events, Way

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Courage, Downhearted, Neighbour

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906), 1922.

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Girl, Memories, Magic

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Giving, Understanding, Grows

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• I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stopping, Way

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