Columbus Short Quotes

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

I don't think about doing new. I just do it.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.