Quotes About Figuring

The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.

Sergio Mora is a Rubik's Cube. You have to figure him out. He's crafty and I have the utmost respect for him.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

You remember sitting, don't you?" Esme said, mocking. "Shhh!" Anton sniped. "I'm trying to figure this out." "Yes, sitting is very distracting," I said. "Getting blown up in this game definitely is distracting," he said. And when he noticed me rolling my eyes at him, he muttered. "Do you honestly think he'd set traps inside his own home base when the outside is so well guarded?" I asked.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

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

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.

One way adult children avoid their legitimate suffering is by staying in their heads. This involves obsessing about things, analyzing, discussing, reading, and spending lots of energy in trying to figure things out. There is a story about a room with two doors. Each door has a sign on it. One says HEAVEN; the other says LECTURE ON HEAVEN.

The thing about writing a story, in real life and on paper, is half the effort is just figuring out what the story is going to be.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

So the guys who are supposed to be figuring out the truth are ignoring it because they don't want to admit they were wrong?" Shay grinned. "Funny how that works, isn't it?