Top 100 Quotes About Making Things
#1. From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
Melissa George
#2. I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.
Ari Marcopoulos
#3. If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you
Kyra Davis
#4. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.
Anastacia Marx De Salcedo
#6. It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.
Ted Cruz
#7. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Nora Ephron
#8. Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
Seth Godin
#9. Making things . . . And making things work . . . That's where satisfaction is in this life.
Paul Chadwick
#10. We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama
#11. I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.
Paula Hawkins
#12. What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.
Robin Sharma
#13. Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right.
Kel Kade
#14. I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things
William Coperwaite
#15. It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
Austin Kleon
#16. I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.
Simone Elkeles
#17. When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
Ma Jian
#19. In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#20. ..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#21. He felt there had to be 'something'. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only by making things, that we could transform the negative 'nothing'.
Ben Okri
#22. I can't help but smile. This is so like you: to turn towards making things better, always facing the light instead of the darkness.
A.J. Waines
#24. There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
Robin Day
#25. Management's never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management's true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management. - Lastogne
Adam-Troy Castro
#26. Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.
Martha Stewart
#27. I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.
Taylor Wilson
#28. As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities ... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing ...
Eugene Delacroix
#29. We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
Deng Xiaoping
#30. The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
Bill Jensen
#31. I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
Mark Zuckerberg
#32. I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.
Paris Hilton
#33. Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom.
John Scalzi
#34. It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
Jenny Holzer
#35. Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according to Hegel, is requisite to practicing consciousness.
Alena Graedon
#36. Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.
John Engler
#37. Not because I couldn't find God, but because suddenly I absolutely did: God was there, I realized, and God had no intention of making things happen or not, of saving my mother's life. God was not a granter of wishes. God was a ruthless bitch.
Cheryl Strayed
#38. I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
Bjork
#39. The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.
Bill Bryson
#40. When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.
Konnie Huq
#41. I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
Colin Hanks
#42. Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.
Neil Gaiman
#43. I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
Rick Santorum
#44. THAT'S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY'VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
Terry Pratchett
#45. Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.
Danny Gregory
#46. From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
Neil MacGregor
#47. RVM Thoughts for Today -
Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily
R.v.m.
#48. It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.
Lauren Oliver
#49. I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
Ted Allen
#50. The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
#51. You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
Lynda Barry
#52. As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.
Arthur Phillips
#53. I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#54. Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does not mean it is not true or even good. Just because something pleases people does not make it true either.
Richard Rohr
#55. A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.
Michelle Paver
#56. Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular.
Jonah Berger
#57. That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
#58. It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.
Justin Bieber
#59. Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
Jennifer McMahon
#60. When he makes mistakes, he's so focused on righting the wrong, and so overconfident about his ability to fix it all, that he loses sight of the big picture and ends up making things worse.
Jenn Bennett
#61. I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
Tony Dungy
#62. If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.
Richard Russo
#63. Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.
Sue Grafton
#65. Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they're scared, adults have no more answers than us kids
Mike A. Lancaster
#66. Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.
Cindy Gallop
#67. It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.
David Byrne
#68. Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Stephen Colbert
#69. We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
James Dyson
#70. It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.
Sarah Ruhl
#72. John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.
Jack London
#73. The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
N.D. Wilson
#74. I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.
Whit Stillman
#75. The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#76. I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Salvador Dali
#77. I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.
Keke Palmer
#78. I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.
Dean Karnazes
#79. The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
L. Todd Rose
#80. If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."
Aphex Twin
#81. When couples start to get stale, instead of looking to books or movies or other people for their support or romance, they should be coming to each other, ramping things up, making things fun.
Shelly Crane
#82. I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'
Chris Evans
#83. I believe that whenever someone you love dies, a part of you goes with them. I also think that every time someone new is brought into your life, a part of you is reborn. The circle of life and death is a balancing act, God's way of making things even.
Dani Amore
#84. But God has a way of making things even out, I guess.
Sherman Alexie
#85. Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it ... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
Cornelia Parker
#86. Life is all about making things happen, it won't happen at the say of a magic word. You have to go out there and change things.
Khali Raymond
#87. Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
Sandy Skoglund
#88. I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
Paul Buchheit
#89. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde
#90. It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.
Henry George
#91. Pictures rarely told the truth. They were like gold lacquer over Styrofoam, making things seem shiny and bright, disguising the fragility beneath. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it still wasn't worth a whole hell of a lot.
Amy Harmon
#92. The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
Matt Haig
#93. I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.
Christopher Bailey
#94. I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.
Matthew James Thomas
#95. If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.
William Westney
#96. The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.
Colleen Hoover
#98. Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.
Jake Barton
#99. What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank?
John D'Agata
#100. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
Nora Ephron
