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• My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Exercise, Feel Better, Goal

  "How to Be the Healthiest Person Alive" by AJ Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

  Monica Ali

  Trying, Needs, Outsiders

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• When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

  Heinz-Otto Peitgen

  Impact, Years, Important

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• Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

  Dana White

  Mma, Giving, Trying

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• The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

  Steven Zaillian

  Directors, Done, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Trying

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• I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

  Marina Keegan

  Art, Trying, Enough

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Humanity, Overcoming, Calling

  "Time Magazine's 'Evolution Wars' Features Albert Mohler". www.christianpost.com. August 10, 2005.

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• A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

  George Catlin

  Beautiful, Men, Gnarly

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

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• Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Jobs, Real

  "Oprah: ‘Everybody Has A Calling’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Simple, Ideas

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

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• Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

  Rollo May

  Character, Men, Self

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• Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Want, Existential, Accepting

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for me it was between the two buildings going down... I had to do it, otherwise they'd win.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Winning, Two

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• He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Running, Company

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as I could. Then I spent the next twenty years trying to figure out how to run the least amount of miles needed to finish a marathon. And I've come to the conclusion the second way is much more enjoyable.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Years, Careers

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• Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

  Leonard Koppett

  Sports, Baseball, Lying

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• The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Race, Rivers, Dawn

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• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Thinking, Perspective, Alive

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• In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong, Men, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Gold, Cash

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2017

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