Top 100 Make Things Quotes
#1. Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!
Rick Riordan
#2. It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
Clay Shirky
#3. I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.
Lauren Bowles
#4. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
Rush Limbaugh
#5. My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man's pride, And now it's almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I've got to make things better for my son and for my tribe
Bob Teague
#6. I like to use my hands and make things ... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter ... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
Bruce Nauman
#7. C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
Linus Torvalds
#8. It wasn't his job to make things suffer - he was just here to win battles. Whatever it took.
Anonymous
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.
Amy Sedaris
#12. The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.
John Lasseter
#13. I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.
Lexi Thompson
#14. It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
Seneca The Younger
#15. Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Jesse Schell
#16. I was never one to like power, but in the back of everyone's mind, you secretly wouldn't mind having some at one point or another. To be able to make things the way you wanted them would be an amazing thing.
Holly Hood
#17. If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
Yehuda Berg
#18. I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to.
J.K. Rowling
#19. When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation are useless to you at that moment and that they can actually make things worse than they need be.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#20. There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Mary Kay Ash
#21. Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
Dave Eggers
#22. I really fight hard to make things film where they're supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New York, then it has to be in New York.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#23. We can't accept that things will always be bad. If we do, we won't fight to make things better.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#24. I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.
Martin Luther
#25. I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
Frank Gehry
#26. One thing I've found in life - and you may have noticed it, too - is that beer often can make things seem better. I'm not sure why this is, but it's a phenomenon I've observed enough times that I can confidently declare it to be true.
Sean Pronger
#27. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.
Charlotte Pearson
#28. One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal.
Renee Marino
#29. Good. I wouldn't want you to fall madly in love with me. That would make things very complicated when it comes to your beloved Shadow, wouldn't it? Who'd win the battle for your heart then? The servant or the king?
Michelle Rowen
#30. That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.
Julia Roberts
#31. Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated ...
Avril Lavigne
#32. Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
Geddy Lee
#33. A philosopher thinks out loud to make things better for everyone else. Fanatics make themselves louder because they think they are better than everyone else.
Corey Taylor
#34. No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
Matt Chandler
#35. I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
Ashton Kutcher
#36. 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
#37. There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
Sam Yagan
#38. In a globalized economy, it's very difficult for the U.K. to go it alone. Don't listen to politicians. Politicians say if the U.K. leaves, things will be better. I'm telling you, leaving could make things worse.
Wang Jianlin
#39. It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.
Victoria Legrand
#40. 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
#41. Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. If you spend too much time dreaming, you'll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there's a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.
Miranda Kenneally
#43. I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
Kristin Gore
#44. Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.
Larry McMurtry
#46. One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record ... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.
Jonathan Ames
#47. Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.
Michelle Bachelet
#48. Because you, my darling, are like poison ivy to me. Even though I know that it will only make things worse, I can't help but scratch."
"Oh, the compliments." She smiled sadly. "You are as debonair as always.
J.R. Ward
#49. My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.
Chris Adrian
#50. What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
L. Ron Hubbard
#51. Beauty won't protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can't plan for. The one thing you can't save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.
Laura Dave
#52. Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.
Dick Gregory
#53. Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.
Nouman Ali Khan
#54. 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
#55. I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
John Corigliano
#56. 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
#57. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
Andre Dubus III
#58. I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#59. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#60. My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
Christopher Bailey
#61. Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
Charles Bukowski
#62. I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
Tatiana Maslany
#63. 25It is good. The Eternal One is good to those who expect Him, to those who seek Him wholeheartedly. 26It is good to wait quietly for the Eternal to make things right again. 27It is good to have to deal with restraint and burdens when young.
Anonymous
#64. I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling
#65. Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don't make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.
Ellen Gallagher
#66. 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
#67. But he had no idea what sort of darkness lurked inside her, or what sort of monster she was willing to become in order to make things right.
Sarah J. Maas
#68. Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.
John Adams
#69. The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.
Cesar Chavez
#70. Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.
Sakyong Mipham
#71. The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.
Walter Isaacson
#72. There is a certain feeling of comfort and safety that one gets by conforming and obeying. Believing that things are in someone else's hands, and having trust that someone else will make things right, is a way to avoid responsibility.
Larken Rose
#74. One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
Hank Haney
#75. Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.
Hillary Jordan
#76. My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.
Francis Chan
#77. Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple
Ernst F. Schumacher
#78. Why, mouth, why? Why must you always open and say shit to make things worse?
Stacey Marie Brown
#79. I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.
Jock Stein
#80. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.
Tom Peters
#81. Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
James L. Brooks
#82. The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.
Ratan Tata
#83. Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have
I want it that way.
Charles Ives
#84. Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.
Sheryl Sandberg
#85. Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.
Mike Mills
#86. Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?
Carroll Bryant
#87. 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
#88. I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
Amandla Stenberg
#89. There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened. - Anonymous
Philip Kotler
#90. You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
Maya Lin
#91. Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.
Anne McKevitt
#92. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
Ivar Giaever
#93. What companies and entrepreneurs sometimes forget is that the purpose of innovation is not simply to make new, improved products and services; it is to make things that are meaningful to the people who use them.
Bernadette Jiwa
#94. So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen.
Jasper Fforde
#95. There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
Benjamin Franklin
#96. The Gift of a New Day that talks about new motivation and a new outlook on life. God loves to make things new! Avoid
Audrey Meisner
#97. If we lose our optimism, we lose our greatest power to make things better.
Gary Edward Gedall
#98. I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.
Peter Saul
#99. Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.
Gabriel Macht
#100. There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.
David Longstreth
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