Make It Happen Quotes

Make It Happen Quotes by Carol Burnett, Marianne Williamson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Philippa Gregory, Nonito Donaire, Michael Jordan and many others.

But I don’t begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it’s just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.
When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don’t need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
I’ll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they’ll make it happen.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
I think Cormier and I would be a great fight. I will do everything I can to make it happen.
It’s sort of easy to make a challenge. It’s very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That’s real leadership.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can’t; they want everyone to eat but they can’t make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, “Why can’t we do anything?”
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.
The technology we have available is not being used, and we don’t have to tell stories in a line anymore. We can tell them in the shape of a tree. I can’t stand to see it not happen, and I’m going to make it happen.
Good things come to those who hustle
If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don’t let go! You can make it, make it happen
I don’t like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there’s something that makes it happen naturally. I don’t like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen… The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
Good things come to those who wait.
I love my work, apart from when it’s driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I’m buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.
You don’t need a fancy degree to dream big and make it happen. It’s all in your head , your heart , your hands.
Rashmi Bansal
Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you’re expected to work to make it happen?
The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.
Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.
The idea for The Muse came from my own life, from a product that I wanted but couldn’t find anywhere. Sometimes when you see a need for something in your own life and you can’t get it, you feel crazy enough to make it happen yourself.
At one point, I was in a place where it didn’t feel like it was going to happen and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You’ve got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.
I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that’s what it’s all about.
I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.
Infuse your life with action.
If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won’t like what happened.
There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’
When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen – this is the panacea to success.
I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley‘s book ‘Roots’ for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I’m like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it’s going to taste terrific. If I don’t, it’s not going to come out good.
I just thank God that I didn’t grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
You have to make it happen.
I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.
I want to make history and just show people that if you have determination and if you want to work hard enough and want something, you can make it happen.
When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.
I don’t think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen.
I’ve tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That’s why you hear people call me a ‘hybrid goalie’ and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I’m able to play it and make it happen.
VR is going to become something mainstream, but it’s not going to happen right away. You just don’t have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, ‘This isn’t supposed to be happening this way,’ and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
Sex is a natural function. You can’t make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
William Masters
Good things come to those who initiate.
‘Make in India‘ is great, but ‘Make It Happen in India’ is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It’s about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
Let’s invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let’s invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.
Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don’t have to be born with it or have had the ‘lemonade stand.’ But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen.
If someone else isn’t making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
Most of the time, stuff doesn’t just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.
Just because a guitar is old doesn’t make it good… I’ve seen guitars that were old but weren’t as good as the reissue … for me, it’s not the age that makes it happen, it’s the quality of the instrument.
If you think you can do it, your body will find a way to make it happen.
You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That’s all I’ve learned, is that if you’re doing something you love you‘ll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
Working with young actors is really going with trust. I never see them act beforehand. Because that’s not their job. It’s my job to make it happen on set.
Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.
If something’s going to happen for you, it will, you can’t make it happen. And it never does happen until you’re past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it’s for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won’t make you go crazy.
Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.
I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
Trust in your training, and make it happen.
Peter Vidmar
Take your time. Love is gonna come. Don’t force it. Don’t try to make it happen. Relax, take your time, and you’ll know when it’s there. My mom gave me that advice.
The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
It’s the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, ‘here’s this great idea,’ then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.
When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton … are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.
Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.
Take your passion and make it happen.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen.
I’m a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You’ve got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you’ve got to make it happen sometimes.
If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.
Never give up! People don’t understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.
There’s a level of sophistication of filmmaking that’s mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there’s an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let’s make it happen.
I don’t like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that’s happening, stuff that’s going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.
Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
I just know that something good is going to happen. I don’t know when – but just saying it could even make it happen.
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.
The Reeves Nelson debacle, that hurt me. There are certain things regarding him that I couldn’t say then and still can’t. But I should have pulled the plug on him after his sophomore year. We tried to make it work, but we couldn’t make it happen.
There is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing to risk everything to make it happen.
Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.
You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you’ve got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.
I’m not that good lookingnobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It’s a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That’s all it is. I didn’t have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I’m from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that’s going to happen, let’s make it happen.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
My teammates give me a hard time about that all the time, ‘Hey, if you catch the ball and get in an open field, I want you to long jump from the 10 into the end zone.’… I might make it happen one of these days.
I’m on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
The Holy Spirit is not “the Doer,” but rather the “Helper.” He will not do it without us, but if we engage He will help us with what we need to make it happen
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
We’ll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can’t be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
Nothing happens until I make it happen.
Endings must come naturally, you’re supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.
Barry Harris
When real substantive change happens it’s the people who watch your show, they’re the ones that make it happen. It’s people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They’re the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.
Every moment contains an opportunity to create feelings of satisfaction and excitement in a customer. It’s up to retailers to make it happen.
Pause and remember – Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.
Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
It’s the first time I have returned to my roots – like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We’ll go on tour in the summer.
It is not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction.
It’s time to pull the bandage off America‘s foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.
I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.
Don’t be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.
Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.
Gloria Feldt
Know what it is that drives you – motivates you – and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.
Once people tell me I can’t do stuff, I’m going to go and make it happen.
My parents are really supportive of my interests and try to help make them happen with the tools I need. More importantly, they instilled in me that anything is possible if you work hard to make it happen.
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.
elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.
I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
I follow my own head. And if I’m determined to do something, then I’ll make sure that I make it happen.
You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn’t sleep much in school because I worked a lot – you figure out how to make it happen.
It is vitally important that you prioritize your film and use your time and energy and resources to make it happen. Stop waiting for things to fall into place. Start doing things right now to make it happen.
One can’t logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.
Sometimes we have to put our foot down, … but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we’re doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.
It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Women leave my seminars with a level of confidence they didn’t have before. They can go out, meet people, start conversations and have a good time. They don’t have to worry about waiting for someone great to come along as they know they have the tools to make it happen.
There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say “busted” or “confirmed” or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we’re simply enjoying ourselves.
People who say, “I don’t know what to do,” usually aren’t inspired enough to make it happen.
Finally I’d found this way where I didn’t need a record label; I didn’t need to wait for some phone call to tell me, ‘Go and do it’. It’s like, I’m going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything.
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It’s incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).
Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don’t bug him. He’s able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God! We love this.’
In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
I leave my career totally to the creative staff and Vince McMahon. Whatever they give me to do, I’ll go in headfirst and I’ll just perfect it and make it happen. I’m ready for whatever they have to throw at me.
I’m not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events … me going to concerts and saying “I think I can do that”.
Bill Gaither
All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own ‘brand of me’ and saying ‘buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.’
I was dreaming of wearing a sari and dancing like Madhuri Dixit. I also used to dream of working with Shah Rukh Khan. I did nothing to make it happen. I only dreamed and believed in my dreams.
Creativity doesn’t just happen – you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.
Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.
Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else – it’s challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it’s no different than anyone else‘s life.
I’ve thought about living the koala‘s life, but you may need to petition the government quarantine rules to make it happen. Quarantine would make me extra grumpy.
Instead of just letting life happen, I’m going to make it happen for me.
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.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
If you’re waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.
At one point, I was in a place where it didn’t feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You’ve got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.
I became more part of the industry after quitting acting. I contribute greatly to the industry, as I bring in talent, provide money in the chain, and make it happen.