It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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Related It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things ... LEONARDO DA VINCI Stop dreaming and get moving. People of accomplishment rarely sit back and wait for things to be hap... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA This is a team with heart that does all the little things necessary to win. They are fundamentally s... BROCK KNIGHT The wrestling world is unique. There are things that happened, and there are things that didn't ... SHAWN MICHAELS The guys came out fired up. They knew Rossville had a chance to tie us for the conference if we let ... DAVE BARRETT It just so happened that we had a number of big-name, negative reports come in to start things off, ... BRIAN GENDREAU I couldn't believe it. I went to try to block the ball and it just skimmed off my head. It's one of ... JONATHAN WOODGATE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan ... WANDA JACKSON You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happene... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove t... WALLY LAMB It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to p... WANDA JACKSON When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE This is another bad thing that happened, but I know great things are coming for me. I feel like I've... REX GROSSMAN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. 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KEN ANDERSON They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO There are four types of people in this world.There are people that make things happen. There are peo... UNKNOWN On long rebounds, we didn't box out well and they out-hustled us at times. Once they had a feel they... CRAIG TUREK The homeless need someone to speak for them. I filed this after I saw what happened in Fort Lauderda... REP. PRISCILLA TAYLOR Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what k... ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Since I've said I retired, I've had so many people come up to me about movies and things like that. ALMUDENA FERNANDEZ There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think ... ROMAN COPPOLA My guys they basically, it sets them back a day. They had to get new materials to replace them, and ... BILL MAHAFFEY I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. RANSOM RIGGS it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen, ARISTOTLE Do yourself a favor instead of waking up and telling yourself that it's another boring day at work o... ELIZABETH ANN GREY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD With their speed they can create problems and make things happen. But then crazy things start to hap... DENISE NUGENT I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ... STEVEN TYLER Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder... CARROLL BRYANT We had opportunities. I've asked the girls to do a lot of things they have never done, and they have... LORI DRESBACH That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. JOHN GREEN What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ They just went in and cleaned things out. I feel good about how it went and am looking forward to ge... JAWANN MCCLELLAN You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure thi... DAVE GOLDBERG People rarely discuss the things that trouble them most. VIKRANT PARSAI They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD These are competitive people and things like that happen. We will check what happened and we will ta... EREZ EDELSTEIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened PROVERB His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and co... MAURICE ASHLEY Strange things happen in this game. There were a lot of things going on, and we let them hang around... MARQUIS DANIELS When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we re... ROBERT BALDWIN People can be divided into four groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen,... KEN NDARU There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things ha... ANN LANDERS People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom menti... CORMAC MCCARTHY We had a lot of guts, heart and passion. We were in extreme foul trouble. We went back-and-forth the... JEFF GRESS We had absolutely nothing to lose, so we went into it with a mindset of 'Why not?' and things just s... ANDY BADER It's one of those kinds of things that exists and people don't pay attention to until they have to. GARY KUBIC Bad things that were going to happen have not happened, MICHAEL FRANC Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the wor... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Some People Make Things Happen, Some Watch Things Happen, While Others Wonder What Has Ha... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come. DEXTER PALMER You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe t... PAULA HAWKINS I went out of my way to say good things when people were saying a lot of bad things about him. JOE RATTO Shots feel good when they come out of my hand. For some reason, I'm missing long right now, and that... BROOKS MCKOWEN Since I don't have any kids of my own, it's a challenge for me. But it's the best thing that ever ha... BARBARA JOHNSON If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It... HERB BROOKS Since Wal-Mart and H-E-B is all out of water we had to come to Bastrop to get the things that we nee... JANICE JOHNSON I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to disli... LISA KLEYPAS Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. SUZANNE COLLINS I really struggle with it. I had come a long way and made it back. To have a setback ... you're alwa... GARY JOE KINNE Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about... FRED KOREMATSU Sometimes it was awesome to sit back and let another person take control. So long as they did really... LETA BLAKE I couldn't believe it. I went to try to block the ball and it just skimmed off my head. It's one of ... JONATHAN WOODGATE The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're n... EUGENE MIRMAN You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So l... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the little things are what means more to me DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ Tough times measure the size of the accomplishment; let that drive push you to make it happen. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Their defense caused us to make a lot of turnovers, but I felt like we had come a long way. Then we ... DREW TROST We're anxious to see things get back to normal. Out here there's still a lot of beautiful things. It... DONNA ANDERSON They were playing extremely well, so to come back from that, we had to do things extra (well), MISTY MAY I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay '... MIKE PETERS I went to a party recently that some of the students gave, ... and I sat around, trying to keep quie... JOHN CASEY We did some really good things to get the lead, but in the back of my mind all night long, I had a w... EILEEN COPENHAVER We were very undisciplined in the first. And some things happened we don't want to happen to start t... ERIC ORNE At times things doesn't happen our way. Let it happen the way our life want or god has decided. May ... SHIVANGI LAVANIYA
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