It Is What It Is Quotes

• It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

  Pat Summitt

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• It is what it is. Either walk on, or accept.

  Deborah Lawrenson

  Accepting, Walks

  Deborah Lawrenson (2011). “The Lantern”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Reason

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• It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.

  Liza Minnelli

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  "Super trouper" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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• It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

  Mira Grant

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.346, Hachette UK

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• I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

  NeNe Leakes

  Knowing, People, Trying

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

  Giles Duley

  Can't Change, Happened, I Can

  "Giles Duley Interview by Lisa Rueff". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• It is what it is, it is what you make it.

  James Durbin

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• It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

  Dan Flavin

  Dan Flavin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1999). “Dan Flavin: the architecture of light”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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  Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Lying, Want, Truth Is

  D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.40, iUniverse

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

  Tom Robbins

  Mistake

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.81, Bantam

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

  John Szarkowski

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Essence, Becoming, Use

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

  Jeremy Luke

  Past, Good Things, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

  Nicole Kidman

  Positive, Break Up, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 25, 2016

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