“If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.” IfsWantHappensAbilityHappenedMake It Happen Author:Randall Dale Adams
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.” PainFormWaitingAbilityHappenedBirthPatientUncertaintyTensionSomething NewEnduranceWillingnessUnfoldingCoexistUnknowing Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.” PeopleWorldHas BeensShowsGovernmentWould BeCommunityAbilityHappenedTvsBehaviorSeparation Author:Ice Cube
“All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.” IfsWritingPersonsHas BeensDifferentKidsLastsArtistGuyAbilityOur LivesHappenedHavensDrawsYeahCome UpSecureTwelveGreat ArtEighteenBeing DifferentGreat ArtistCobblers Author:John Lennon
“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.” GivingStoriesActorsChallengesAbilityHappenedComplexesDimensions Author:Benjamin Avila
“We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.” WorldGivingTogetherAbilityPiecesHappenedHappeningsLogicalRemembranceContinuity Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.” PeopleIfsWayWantCertainAbilityHappenedLimitsBunchScreening Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.” ThinkingSaidEndsStoriesMovingLinesAbilityDecisionForgetHappenedMediaEventsElectionCourtSupremeNarrativeSupreme CourtTime To Move OnCourt DecisionSimply Said Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"” IfsMenWayRealWould BeWantedBeautifulSportsAbilityWonderHappenedTeamBe GoodDramaticWowOlympicsMedalAthleticCoverageAtlantaArcheryAthletic Ability Author:Geena Davis
“I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have to go to the Stasi, we can go to the Gestapo, and see what happens, when your human rights, your ability to a freedom of expression and a freedom of thought is infringed upon. This is terribly, terribly dangerous territory.” PeopleHumansStillsHappensAbilityAliveRightsHappenedDangerousExpressionThirdsHuman RightsTerritoryFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ExpressionGestapo Author:Ray McGovern