Figuring Quotes - page 7

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write. (Ottessa Moshfegh)
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us. View quote
Judith Butler
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents. View quote
Chelsea Clinton
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I also come from a matriarchal family. My grandmother was left alone, not by choice. And then my mother as well. We lost my father when I was 16; he died. I was an adolescent figuring out that you're not really worth much when you're all women' View quote
Lila Downs
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with. View quote
Josie Maran
That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. View quote
Kathy Acker
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far. View quote
Andrew Mason
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together. View quote
Alan Alda
He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool? (Gillian Schieber Flynn)
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. View quote
Elon Musk
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise. View quote
Nolan Bushnell
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech, and you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard. View quote
Mitchell Baker
We thought the hard part was over-but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out-there is nothing harder. View quote
Paullina Simons
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability. View quote
Samantha Power
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves. View quote
Felix Dennis
Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Suddenly, I wondered what the hell was going on. Ramón had been the smartest and most capable guy in our whole grade in "thinking” and "figuring” out things, and he'd been considered dumb, too. And now Gus, he was also the smartest guy of all of us during recess and he just said that he'd been flunked before. This didn't make any damn-I mean, blessed-sense to me at all! The smartest kids I knew were all considered stupid. (Victor Villaseñor)
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 soon as I get them. View quote
Claire Danes
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
Any guy who's played team sports has practiced a skill I call "team sport empathy”: he's practiced focusing on anticipating the other team's moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation. View quote
Warren Farrell
...I am an anxious person by nature, full of fear and insecurities. Those early years of figuring out how to make a living in theatre are hard and while my anxieties, fear and insecurities have not gone away, I proved to myself that I could make a living as an artist. Now I want to learn how to be a good artist, a really fucking good artist... View quote
Vanessa Grise