Figures Quotes - Page 27

• Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

  Leighton Meester

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• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Profound

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• Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

  Catharine Arnold

  Horse, Taken, Warrior

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Climbing, Movement, Problem

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• My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

  Galen Rowell

  Passion, Climbing, People

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• People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Chance, Over It

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• It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Who We Are

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• The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

  Alexander Isley

  Looks, Way, Lasts

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• The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

  Danny Elfman

  Land, Four, Want

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• You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

  Adyashanti

  Joy, Mystery, Incredibles

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

  Michio Kaku

  Average, Volunteer, Voodoo

  "Nuclear-powered NASA craft to zoom by Earth on Tuesday". www.cnn.com. August 16, 1999.

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• We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

  Bob Goff

  Safe, Sacred, Settling

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 25, 2014

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• I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good enough." You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They're just trying to figure out what's the opening and how they can seize it. They're not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I'm not perfect, my hair's not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Perfect

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• They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Laughing, Want, Figure Skating

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• I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

  Carmen Kass

  Girl, Figure Skating, Right Now

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• When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

  Michael McKean

  Way, Figure Skating, Profit

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• There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

  Ben Stiller

  Tired, People, Sick

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• When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

  Norman Jewison

  Numbers, Track, Work Out

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• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  Yancy Butler

  Native American, Names, Figure Skating

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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