Puzzles Quotes - Page 10

• Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

  David Levithan

  Together, Pieces, Shapes

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.158, Egmont UK

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• The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Real, Needs, Answers

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “The Search for WondLa”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Dawn, Mystery, Humans

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

  Ann Aguirre

  Hate, Jigsaw Puzzles, Borders

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• It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

  Alan Watts

  Two, Together, Division

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.44, Souvenir Press

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• I think there's very many paths to a nomination, and they don't all necessarily go through the bloggers. I don't think we, as bloggers, are all important. I don't think that we can make or break a candidate. I think we are a component, we are a piece of a larger piece of a puzzle. And so, no campaign is going to be able to have it all. No campaign is going to have all the money it needs, or all the media it needs, or all the staffers it needs or all the blog attention it needs. They're going to have various pieces, and there's more than one way to get to the nomination.

  Markos Moulitsas

  Thinking, Important, Attention

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.

  Geoffrey Marcy

  Water, Earth, Host

  "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

  Ray Dalio

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  Rashida Jones

  Reading, Games, Piano

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

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• I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Games, Guy

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• For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Novel, Invitations

  "Mohsin Hamid on writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

  Ashley Greene

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

  Daniel Goleman

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Intelligence

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Purpose, Universe

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• To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

  Tim Ferriss

  Support, Marketing, Retail

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• Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

  Eric Davis

  Pieces, Places I've Been

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

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• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  Harlan Coben

  Ideas, People, Lasts

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• When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fun, College, Analysis

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• I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Men, Two

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Being immersed in the fashion world is very addicting. I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that.

  Selena Gomez

  Fashion, Stressed, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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• Working with the editor on the set means that it is possible to keep track, at every moment, of the exact temperature of the trajectory of the scene - and know precisely what is required to continue, or precede, the action already shot. Like building a giant jigsaw puzzle. This is a freeing procedure because one is divested of all the options that might otherwise hamper one's choices. Clarity is possible. And that means one can relax into each shot, knowing the clear boundaries of where it might end or begin. And with relaxation, comes play.

  Tilda Swinton

  Mean, Track, Choices

  Source: wwd.com

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• I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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