Quotes About Figuring

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you'll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing explained anything to you? Writing does not force coherence onto a discordant narrative.

maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

As an academic, a great deal of my time is spent writing, with very little in meetings. In government, the premium is placed on figuring things out through discussing them with other people.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

That's our journey this month. Figuring it all out. Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

I'm learning how to fight. Just figuring out what I need to do to further myself.

Oswin was the most perfect servant of the Father, always so concerned for figuring out the exact rules and getting himself on the right side of them. Or them on the left side of him. It always stung him when I pointed that out.

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

starts to think out loud. It's obvious she's on the verge of figuring something out. "Well, I knew this, though… but… I knew that. For each one up, it goes that many over. I'm still somewhat confused as

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

I'm still figuring it all out, and I think everyone is. And that's kind of the point is that there's no fixed identity, especially for like people in the queer community. It's going to be an ongoing journey, but yeah, I hope that sharing it helps people.

Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.