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• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Weekend, Thinking

  "Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

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• When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Ego

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• I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

  Brenda Lee

  Air, Awful, Crash

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• I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

  Brian Eno

  Creation, Duplicate, Happens

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• I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Perception, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.47, New World Library

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• When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Thinking, Done, Way

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• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

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• When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Clouds, Light, Trying

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• I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

  Richard Gere

  Regret, Healing, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

  Philip K. Jason

  Believe, People, World

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• Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

  Jan Eliasson

  Passion, Wrong Things, Happens

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• Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

  Richard Siken

  Forever, Plastic, Moody

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• Everything happens for me, not to me.

  Byron Katie

  Happens

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2013

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• Nothing happens unless something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Happens

  "21 Keys to Work/Life Balance: Unlock Your Full Potential". Book by Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, p. 41, 2013.

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• I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

  Richard Branson

  Ideas, People, Each Day

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Life And Death, Amplify

  "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.

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• Nothing
  happens without a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Reason, Happens

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• Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "The Simple Art of Murder". Book by Raymond Chandler (Introduction), 1950.

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• Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Ideas

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• I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Spiritual, Thinking, Asking Questions

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

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• I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

  Tony Dungy

  School, Winning, Player

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• Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Happens

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.357, Bantam

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• Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Connected, Electrons

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• In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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