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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them. — Marc Newson

I tend to roll with the punches so if things don't go exactly as planned, I always perceive it as the universe making things the way they should be. — Mike Ruiz

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

Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else. — Patricia Hamill

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. — Rose Wilder Lane

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. — Bernhard Langer

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things. — Mark Rubinstein

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes. — Vic Fuentes

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge. — Janny Wurts

One of the fun things about play is making up stories ... — John Lasseter

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. — Casey Abrams

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. — Amy Dickinson

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. — Roger Enrico

So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things. — Raza Jaffrey

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true. — Barry Sonnenfeld

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up. — Rick Moranis

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. — Bernie Taupin

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. — Jenny Holzer

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse. — William Westney

Spend your energy on things that make a difference. — M. Russell Ballard

Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday. — Richard Bandler

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

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy. — Stuart Cloete

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. — Greg Lake

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it. — Lenny Kravitz

Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things. — Erin Boyle

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told. — Jennifer McMahon

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later. — Nhat Hanh

We don't want to hear it, but one of the biggest "secrets" to success is the ability to take action. — Daniel Vlcek

Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread. — Pragat Kasana

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got. — Helen Steiner Rice

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. — Sandy Skoglund

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. — Phil Collins

Money is for making things happen. — Richard Branson

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. — Simone Elkeles

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis

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

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living. — Kristin Gore

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage. — Patsy Cline

Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. — Robert Alan Aurthur

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants. — Joss Stone

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

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go! — Allison Williams

But repaying a debt
means giving up things.
Making sacrifices.
If I sacrifice my heart
for Jackson,
will I be dead
too? — Lisa Schroeder

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. — Stephen King

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. — N.D. Wilson

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for. — Erri De Luca

I guess that,when it's done and you're done and everything has happened,that's when it's time to get up and start making things happen for yourself. — Kelsey Macke

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

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention. — Paris Hilton

Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down. — Neil Gaiman

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. — Donna Karan

Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular. — Jonah Berger

20and w through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, x making peace — Anonymous

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin

Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them. — David Whitaker

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. — John Cassavetes

One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things. — Terry Teachout

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things. — Jake Barton

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making. — Douglas Adams

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

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. — Chris Cleave

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are. — Austin Kleon

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

I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you. — Glenda Millard

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world. — Dan Miller

By collecting things in one spot, you can also compare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them. — Marie Kondo

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman

I've been painting and making things since I was little. — Jemima Kirke

The best thing about being God would be making the heads. — Iris Murdoch

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out. — Lois Lowry

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making — Jack Dangermond

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.
-Sonia — Neal Shusterman

I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline. — Jenny Meadows

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have. — Katy Grannan

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same. — Lois Lowry

Things get to me all the time - I just don't see the point in making a
big deal out of it. — Hannah Harrington

If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another. — Richard Russo

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen. — Cindy Gallop

Are any of us really awake? Are we making decisions about our lives, or just letting things happen to us? — Jessica Hawkins

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

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. — Henry Jackman

Life is simple. You're the one making things complex. — Sue Grafton

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change. — Douglas Coupland

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. — Don DeLillo