Happens Quotes - Page 35

• I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Guy, Reputation, Comic

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• Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Distance, Live Life, Long

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• If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.

  Larry Towell

  Thinking, Land, People

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• Sky is the limit, never doubt yourself, stay focused, never let anything slow or stop you from concurring your goals and making your dreams happen!

  Myles Jury

  Dream, Sky, Goal

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• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  Gabby Douglas

  Mom, Rain, Waiting

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• I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

  Terrell Owens

  Guy, May, Figures

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

  Mehmet Oz

  Weight, Disposition, Feels

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• Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Trying, Radical

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• I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

  Jane Siberry

  Letting Go, Thinking, Doors

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• I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Night, Men

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• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

  E. B. White

  Running, Sight, Long

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Growing Up, Men, Personality

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

  David Frum

  Peace, War, Communication

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

  Tom Turner

  Past, Garden, Wish

  Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.437, Taylor & Francis

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• Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

  Allan Sherman

  Winning, Crash, Automobile

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

  Daniel Lopatin

  Space, Creating, Sculpture

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• And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

  Joan Wickersham

  Healing, Doe, Bruises

  Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Powerful, Reading, Men

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• To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

  Ruud Gullit

  Country, Play, Best Things

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• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Thinking, Ideas

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• Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Men, People, Promise

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