Figuring Quotes
266 quotes by 244 authors
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There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near…
— William Shakespeare
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
— Katherine Paterson
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Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Strategy is figuring out what not to do.
— Steve Jobs
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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
— Walt Disney
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The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in…
— David Benioff
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The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I…
— Mikal Cronin
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No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why…
— Emily Oster
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Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
— Bob Goff
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I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix…
— Christiane Northrup
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I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting…
— Shiri Appleby
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Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the…
— Greil Marcus
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Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges,…
— Christine Gregoire
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The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new,…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as…
— Claire Danes
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There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime…
— Conrad Hall
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
— Anthony Kiedis
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I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right…
— Heidi Klum
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
— Maya Lin
Who Wrote These Figuring Quotes
244 authors contributed a total of 266 Figuring Quotes, led by these top contributors: