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  • I believe you have to make things happen. -- Clemence Poesy
  • Whatever you want, you can make things happen. -- Wilbert Rideau
  • Leadership is the ability to make things happen. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  • I can make things happen when plays break down. -- Vince Young
  • People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different -- Mo Abudu
  • There are people who make things happen, there are people who -- Jim Lovell
  • People who live in the now; those people make things happen. -- Cesar Millan
  • All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • I like to dream, but I like to make things happen. -- Heidi Klum
  • You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. -- Philip Green
  • If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. -- Robert Collier
  • I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen. -- Jock Stein
  • There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. -- Hugh Prather
  • Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
  • What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. -- Robertson Davies
  • If we unite, we can surmount any mountain and make things happen for the betterment of all. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  • You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you. -- J. B. Smoove
  • My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen. -- Neil Oliver
  • I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people. -- Mike Bibby
  • Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  • Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. -- Anne Rice
  • I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. -- Rob Reiner
  • You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality -- Anita Roddick
  • Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen. -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
  • I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen. -- Victoria Gray Adams
  • I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level. -- Diane Paulus
  • We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not. -- Sophia Amoruso
  • Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please. -- Lois Gould
  • Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination. -- Theodore Levitt
  • Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap. -- Bobby Seale
  • If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen. -- Ormond McGill
  • I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening. -- Dolly Parton
  • To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. -- Tom Robbins
  • In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. -- Pir Vilayat Khan
  • There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans. -- John Lennon
  • In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
  • So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan. -- Kathy Ireland
  • There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened? -- Herman Cain
  • Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. -- Paul Watson
  • There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves. -- Shepard Fairey
  • There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened. -- Herman Cain
  • Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems. -- Muhammad Yunus
  • The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen. -- Frederick Buechner
  • I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
  • There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened. -- Dan Millman
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  • Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance. -- Dave Ulrich
  • There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women. -- Vera Farmiga
  • I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me. -- Angie Martinez
  • My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen. -- Derek Hough
  • For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. -- Mira Nair
  • We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride. -- Alan Cohen
  • The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these. -- Seth
  • Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way. -- Joel Osteen
  • I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. -- Corazon Aquino
  • There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. -- Jim Lovell
  • Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen. -- Seth Godin
  • Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market -- Tom DeLay
  • The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen -- A. A. Milne
  • When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them. -- Hilary Mantel
  • Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back. -- Hanif Kureishi
  • If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around. -- Erin Kelly
  • Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors -- Michael Meacher
  • I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned. -- Mary Harron
  • In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen. -- Michael Vick
  • Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. -- Laini Taylor
  • My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job. -- Arthur Blank
  • We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want. -- Robin Sharma
  • I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen. -- Scott Brooks
  • Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination. -- Mark Batterson
  • I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public. -- Rod Blagojevich
  • Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do. -- Shakti Gawain
  • I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do. -- Baba Kalyani
  • Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises. -- Glen E. Morrell
  • Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not. -- Sophia Amoruso
  • I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed. -- Natalia Vodianova
  • 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
  • The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth? -- Sallust
  • Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Jane Green
  • September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters. -- Roman Coppola
  • When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn't sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can't see. -- Ruben Papian
  • A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. -- Amanda Palmer
  • You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories. -- Heidi Klum
  • I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes. -- Kevin Hart
  • Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. -- Horace Mann
  • It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen. -- Wanda Jackson
  • Things don't just happen, people make them happen -- Zig Ziglar
  • One thing can make many other things happen. -- Charlize Theron
  • I always try to make my things happen. -- Heidi Klum
  • Things do not happen, we must make them happen -- Margaret George
  • I like when things happen organically and make sense. -- Kristen Taekman
  • Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves. -- Oliver Gaspirtz
  • It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. -- John Wooden
  • Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen. -- Michael P. Naughton
  • Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen. -- Wendy Wasserstein
  • Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day. -- Robert Breault
  • If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope. -- Barack Obama
  • I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen. -- Winston Churchill
  • I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better. -- Jerry Brown
  • I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen. -- Tony Dorsett
  • America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have. -- John F. Kerry
  • I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices. -- Melissa Marr
  • Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen. -- Dick Vitale
  • I eventually realized that good things wouldnt happen to me if I didnt make the right choices. -- Melissa Marr
  • I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen. -- Drew Barrymore
  • You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen. -- Buck Brannaman
  • I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen. -- Glenda Millard
  • Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life -- Paulo Coelho
  • Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen. -- Madeleine Albright
  • I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing. -- Chris Gethard
  • You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable. -- Christina Aguilera
  • If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life. -- Pete Carroll
  • Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. -- Charlotte Erickson
  • Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. -- Charlotte Erickson
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