Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
One of my heroes growing up was Darren Gough, he always made things happen and I wanted to be like him.
Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or not those two things happen to align – well, if they do, great. If they don’t, also great.
I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, ’cause I’ve watched so many impossible things happen.
I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
The game is a game, and things happen, and you can’t always execute your plan as perfectly as you’d like to.
I’ve always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.
I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.
Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It’s vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don’t look beautiful.
I don’t have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it’s great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I’m constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.
I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.
People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it’s an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts… even when bad things happen.
My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It’s a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You’re acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I’m a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.
When you fall down or slip in a situation, and somebody scores a goal, it’s normal. These things happen. It happens to me; it happens to other players, I don’t care about these things.
Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.
Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.
It’s very rare to watch a movie and think, ‘That’s the movie we shot!’ So many things happen, with edits and things getting cut out.
The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.
There’s Catholic guilt about things, then there’s the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you’re not really allowed to enjoy them.
I’ll always have to make sure things happen eventually and don’t slip from my hands, from under my nose. I’ll always have to be on my toes.
Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics – like, how many times can we write about the clubs?
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I’m a person – I’m a believer that everything happens for a reason.
I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don’t understand.
One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.
Let your voice be heard. Don’t stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They’re based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they’re called tragedy because they’re extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That’s what the catharsis is.
I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, ‘Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.’ And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.
What would we be without the fans? They’re more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don’t react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs – just going through the woods and being part of it. You can smell the different trees. And I listen. There’s so much you can learn by listening, by sitting and watching things happen.
If you’re going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don’t misinform.
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.
The league is interesting because it’s evident everyone can beat everyone. And sometimes things happen you just don’t understand. This might be referee decisions or the running paths or passes of a teammate. It’s different than in Europe, but you have to take things as they are.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal.
I’ve noticed that throughout my experience, when you keep positive energy, positive things happen.
Life just doesn’t hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that’s the exciting part.
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t.
Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that’s on the court. You can’t make front-office decisions and other stuff. You’ve just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.
Epic things happen in soccer.
When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.
I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we’ll be good.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don’t know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
I feel like some of the best roles that I’ve gotten to play I could’ve never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it’s hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I’ve had I could’ve never anticipated or expected.
I’m flowing and letting things happen as they happen. I want to be living out of suitcases on the road. I’m open to the universe, whatever comes my way. I feel like a hippie – but hey, it works.
