Nothing Just Happens Quotes

#1. Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. - Marcus Luttrell

Marcus Luttrell

#2. I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Jessie Jones

#3. If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

J. J. Watt

#4. I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening.

Denis Johnson

#5. My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.

Christian Slater

#6. The worst part of Christmas is that it ends. That practically the day after, everyone carries on as if nothing else ever happens. You're expected to go back to your normal life, eat normal food, not receive presents or celebrate or be jolly and wear stupid clothing, just because the moment's passed.

Matthew Crow

#7. I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical the ship will be built out of my own hair.

Noel Fielding

#8. Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

Tony Benn

#9. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

#10. I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

John Chancellor

#11. Some things is not that I don't care, it's just that nothing happens if I even actually care about it.

Makuro

#12. I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

Jack Kerouac

#13. (...) life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem - as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.

Paul Bloom

#14. There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come ... . We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

Madsen Pirie

#15. But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Fred Astaire

#16. There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#17. A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Edward Bok

#18. It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

Luke Temple

#19. In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

Judith M Bardwick

#20. It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

Richard Grimes

#21. I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it's rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to that time when life felt like nothing more than one long sequence of embarrassments.

Julian Barnes

#22. But sometimes he's right. 'Nothing happens if you just dream,' he said. 'You need the motivation to make your dreams reality.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#23. If truth is contingent upon the society in which we live ... there is nothing intuitive or universally or absolutely true about freedom from torture or freedom from slavery; our society just happens to have come up with these values over time.

Stephen McAndrew

#24. It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

Chris Murray

#25. I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.

Javon Ringer

#26. You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

Daniel Kehlmann

#27. All I can say is that nothing that happens is down to just one person, or just one action. It was part of life. Yours, and hers, and your father's.

Anne Corlett

#28. Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Gayle Forman

#29. So when it happens, don't just say Damn and forget it. Stop a minute and think it through. Somebody's going to change the face of the earth and it could be you.
'It Was Nothing
Really!', 1969

Theodore Sturgeon

#30. But that was the thing about life. Sometimes it's boring, and nothing happens. Sometimes everything happens at once. And sometimes it's just plain stupid.

Joe Kimball

#31. Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

Gary Haugen

#32. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

Alec Sulkin

#33. I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

Taki Theodoracopulos

#34. I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Frank McCourt

#35. Most of the time
99 percent of the time
you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Lauren Oliver

#36. Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

Michael Jackson

#37. I figure I'll just keep on going the way I am until something starts making sense."
"What if nothing ever does?"
"I guess if that happens, I'll start hoping all the God freaks are right, and there's some superior intelligence up there treating us all like laboratory rats.

Mira Grant

#38. I was young, not married, didn't have kids and I was like, "Why not just try for something now and see what happens while nothing's tying me down?" And, I've been fortunate, since I graduated, to work in the industry and keep on working.

Fiona Gubelmann

#39. In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Scarlett Thomas

#40. I know there must be other navigable paths where either nothing happens, that night or later, or where, when the idea to just pull the curtain on most things and then on everything, just because crosses my mind, I let the moment pass, and I go to sleep like everyone else did on my street that night.

John Darnielle

#41. Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.

Damien Chazelle

#42. Punish you for what?" said Jack.
"Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem," said Holly. "That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.

Sarah Dunn

#43. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like with 'Swingers,' where it sort of slowly ripples out, yet everybody could quote it. Or it could be something like 'Elf,' where you just make a big splash right off the bat when the movie comes out.

Jon Favreau

#44. And then other times life just sucks and there is nothing to learn. You just get used to it sucking until something else happens to make it worse. Maybe nothing ever gets better, you just grow accustomed to constantly increasing levels of bad." "Life does suck.

Liz Schulte

#45. I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

#46. When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#47. Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Frederick Lenz

#48. There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

James Hilton

#49. Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times ... I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Elliott Erwitt

#50. There's nothing here that's any different from any of the last dozen EKG readings," Patel said. "Patient scores a nine on the Glasgow scale, shows slow alpha-wave activity consistent with alpha coma. I think he was just talking in his sleep, Nurse. It even happens to gorks like this guy." "His

Joe Hill

#51. Food is just something you grow and recipes are just words written in notebooks. They are nothing until the right person comes along. And that's when the real magic happens.

Sarah Addison Allen

#52. If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

James Surowiecki