Shonda Rhimes Quotes

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head ... will dissolve and you will forget about it

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

That's what I tell all the kids who come to my summer camps: 'You'll get a shot; it's about what you do with it.'

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true

Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.