Figuring Out Quotes

#1. I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Clifford Stoll

#2. In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

Tom Peters

#4. The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Michael Sandel

#5. People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Wendy Kopp

#6. Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Charles Duhigg

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

Bill O'Brien

#8. I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

Kirsten Prout

#9. I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three minute song helped. I have layers, there are many different sides to Torae.

Torae

#10. I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

Emily Watson

#11. Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

Brene Brown

#12. The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Mark Twain

#13. Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

Tracy Reese

#14. The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.

Ian Christe

#15. My mom used to say, before, I met your father, that it's not about meeting the right guy - there are hundreds, thousands, of right guys in the world- it's figuring out the right one for you.

Ellie Alexander

#16. I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

Katy Perry

#17. Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

Orlando Jones

#18. No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Emily Oster

#19. I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to mend some things. That's my goal.

Alicia Silverstone

#20. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

Lisa Cron

#21. Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Ian Bremmer

#22. I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

Kelly Rutherford

#23. I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Daniel H. Pink

#24. We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

Jim Rohn

#25. 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.

Bruce Davison

#26. Owever she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring

Peter Carey

#27. 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.

Josie Maran

#28. I didn't know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki's advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do

Maria V. Snyder

#29. I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.

John Green

#30. But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible ...

Lemony Snicket

#31. I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.

Charli XCX

#32. When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

Mark Waid

#33. I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#34. Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Clayton Christensen

#35. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Michelle Obama

#36. When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.

Karen Russell

#37. Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.

Judith Owen

#38. Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

Erik Naggum

#39. At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

Gio Gonzalez

#40. As you're the employer of your body, the fastest way to start enjoying life begins with figuring out how to cut back the hours of stress.

K.R. Royal

#41. I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Anthony Kiedis

#42. I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

Dan Chaon

#43. Angela: What I asked what [Seth] was doing, he said, Figuring out how to make Ellie fall for me.

Kelly Oram

#44. One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

Adam Davidson

#45. I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#46. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.

Paul Jarvis

#47. Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

Bob Goff

#48. I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Heidi Klum

#49. I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.

Patricia Arquette

#50. Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.

Rachel Caine

#51. I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Christian Louboutin

#52. Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.

Ethan Hawke

#53. I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

Adriana Lima

#54. One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

Kristen Stewart

#55. The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

Billy Kennedy

#56. 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.

Fareed Zakaria

#57. I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

Neil Gaiman

#58. 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.

Nolan Bushnell

#59. Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Ken Starr

#60. If you want to switch jobs, then you can come over here right now and balance the extermination budget in London while (shuffling through papers) figuring out why the hell a two-door wardrobe in the spare room of a country house is considered to be a matter of national concern!

Daniel O'Malley

#61. In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today's dynamic, lean economy, it's more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

Eric Ries

#62. Part of the rediscovery process is figuring out what you think about the person looking back at you in the mirror.

Catherine Garrett

#63. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

Octavia E. Butler

#64. Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Albert Einstein

#65. When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

Dierks Bentley

#66. Satan intends to deceive us by getting us to take our eyes off of who we are in Christ and focus on our flaws - and then spend our days figuring out how we can hide them.

Renee Swope

#67. There are things we can fix and things we can't. I guess life is about figuring out which is which, and dealing with both the best you can.

Ruth Cardello

#68. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

John Grogan

#69. For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

Gary Wolf

#70. We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Jeff Zucker

#71. So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

Brad Pitt

#72. When we're creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading all of our carefully crafted text, figuring out how we've organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click. What

Steve Krug

#73. There were things worth keeping and things worth letting go of, and figuring out which was which wasn't that easy." -Jane

Tara Altebrando

#74. I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.

Merlin Mann

#75. I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

Mike Myers

#76. The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.

Steve Gaynor

#77. You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Amy Ray

#78. This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Daisy Whitney

#79. I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

Julia Kent

#80. Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

Nina Dobrev

#81. I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

Andy Kindler

#82. You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.

Carolyn See

#83. If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Winona LaDuke

#84. If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

Amy Webb

#85. This is what men must do. Their true job."
"What's that?"
"Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest."
"Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go.

Lance Weller

#86. The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Jason Calacanis

#87. Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

Anna Quindlen

#88. There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

Adora Svitak

#89. We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Jodi Picoult

#90. If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Gwen Ifill

#91. Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.

Kim Garst

#92. The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the cause of writer's block.

Karen Karbo

#93. Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.

Kerry Wilkinson

#94. 'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

Adrian Tomine

#95. The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

Liz Phair

#96. It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.

Steve Aoki

#97. Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Isaac Asimov

#98. I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

Markus Persson

#99. Because that's when I'll be figuring out how to wash your blood out of my dress. Red really is my best color.

Jennifer Estep

#100. To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.

Don Hertzfeldt