Terrence Malick Quotes

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

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.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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

I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

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

If you want to do something, you'll find the space to do it.

Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

Don't think, just do.

You have to make it happen.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.