Happens Quotes
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.
If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.
When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.
There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.
Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.