Puzzles Quotes - Page 18

• I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Pieces, Esoteric

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

  Ti West

  Plot, Stories, Not Interested

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems if I could solve the puzzle. So, it made me thoughtful - what should I do differently next time? That was the puzzle. And the gem was some principle for handling the same thing when it came along again, and then I would write it down. And by writing it down and referring to it, and also being able to show it to other people so that we could agree that that was a good way of handling that thing - that was very, very powerful.

  Ray Dalio

  Pain, Powerful, Mistake

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

  Terry Bozzio

  Chips

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for someone else to think of the idea. That's why you should do crossword puzzles later in the day, because other people have thought about the answers. That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We worked on The Perfect Storm, and I'll never forget, Wolfgang Petersen would talk about a moment. Like a non-speaking moment, where we'd all be sitting around eating dinner, and it would probably last maybe four seconds on screen. But he would sit there and talk about it for about 10 minutes. He knew what piece of the puzzle that scene would be, and if it were six seconds, it would be too long. If it were three seconds, it wouldn't be enough. I'm always turned on with people's enthusiasm like that.

  William Fichtner

  Long, Perfect, Storm

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

  Emma Stone

  Balance, Insane, Together

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.

  George Pelecanos

  Mean, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.

  Sasha Abramsky

  People, Poverty, Students

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have it. You could do it. I think weather is a factor. The most important factor though is credibility and legitimacy. What I wanted earlier to say is what I think Senator [John] Kerry is pointing to, which is important, is the strategic review on whether to send more troops is only one piece of the puzzle, important piece.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Weather, People

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The amazing thing about the cistern is that, if you're improvising in a dead room, you play your note and then you're left with your thoughts and you have to be really quick on your feet and be able to move through many different musical thoughts seamlessly. Improvising there is just, like, you play a note and then you had at least ten seconds to think, "What would be the perfect accompanying note to that?" And then you could add that note. You can just build this puzzle that was really amazing.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Moving, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't use work from the past as a literal guide; rather, those artifacts reinforce a view that simple images can communicate with wide audiences over time. Icon design is like solving a puzzle, trying to marry an image and idea that, ideally, will be easy for people to understand and remember.

  Susan Kare

  Past, Simple, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Puzzles are great because they're fun. But really we are drawn to puzzles because they can be solved. We love the idea of being able to put a puzzle together and it being complete: you do it perfectly, step away, and you've completed the job. There's a deep satisfaction from that, and I think we wish for the ability to do that with everything. But emotions just don't work that way, people don't work that way, relationships don't work that way.

  Patrick Somerville

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is missing then the puzzle can't be completed. Every team member plays an important part.

  Katie Cassidy

  Team, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• You could make a very focused exploration game, that was about player creativity and exploration. But then it wouldn't have these very meticulous scientific kinds of puzzles in it, that Braid has. And so, it was just about picking something and understanding what it was that was chosen, and sticking to it, ruthlessly.

  Jonathan Blow

  Creativity, Player, Understanding

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• I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

  Duncan Jones

  Aspect, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Running, Ideas, Together

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Games, People

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Nov. 1952. The Post article is quoting an article in Quick Magazine from the summer of 1951. According to a letter by William S. Rubin in the New York Times, 5 Jan. 1969, this is "a trumpery originated in Il Libro Nero published by Giovanni Papini in 1951."

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• I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

  Guy Branum

  Littles, Existential, Homosexuality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Reality, Answers, Limits

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.

  Ferruccio Busoni

  Giving, Together, Solutions

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• That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

  Christine Jennings

  Religious, Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yes, okay, it's cool to be quirky, maybe, on the side. Do some puzzles, make puzzles, whatever, learn how to ride a unicycle. That's cool when it's on the side and you have a plan. What happens when you remove the plan? What you're left with is a guy who likes to do anagrams. And doesn't have a job... Sweet, that's a catch.

  Demetri Martin

  Sweet, Jobs, Guy

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• I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Fun, Years, Ideas

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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