Top 100 Need To Figure Out Quotes
#1. We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we'll either sink or swim. I'm a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath?
Melissa Foster
#2. So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.'
You're kidding me.'
I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?
Wendy Mass
#3. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
Jay Asher
#4. Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
Annie Lennox
#5. We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.
Rob Portman
#6. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
Ashly Lorenzana
#7. He rests his lips against my temple. 'You need to figure out what you really want from this - from us.
Mandy Hubbard
#8. The creativity strength is like a spinning wheel, you need to figure out how to boost it up.
Pearl Zhu
#9. There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
Sarah Polley
#10. Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
Andy Stanley
#11. In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.
Kamala Harris
#12. You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem ... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy ... and I'm willing.
Jewel
#13. Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.
Jim C. Hines
#14. Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.
Dov Davidoff
#15. It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
#16. I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
Jessa Crispin
#17. We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
Elon Musk
#19. As the world grows faster and more interdependent, we need to figure out ways to scale the fluidity of teams across entire organizations: groups with thousands of members that span continents, like our Task Force. But this is easier said than done.
Stanley McChrystal
#20. I take out my book, glad to have a few minutes to study the diagram on time travel and string theory. But before I can build a time machine out of strings, I need to figure out what the heck they are talking about.
Wendy Mass
#21. People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.
Scott Kelly
#22. Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.
Mike Mills
#23. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.
K.J. Kilton
#24. It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.
Lynsey Addario
#25. I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
Elizabeth Olsen
#26. I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#27. We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.
Klaus Lackner
#28. So now we just need to figure out what the hell people wear in Montana." "Brokeback-chic?" I offered.
R.S. Grey
#29. I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.
David Papineau
#30. Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.
Sam Altman
#31. Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
John Ortberg
#32. It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.
John McCain
#33. That's what I need to figure out. I need to figure out who I am. What I want.
Lili Wilkinson
#34. Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut." We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill."
Andrea Tantaros
#35. One employee missed an event to witness the birth of his child. Musk fired off an e-mail saying, "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't."*
Ashlee Vance
#36. We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
Mario Batali
#37. I need to figure out how to keep this forever. Her, me the open desert. I don't fucking need anything else. I may be young but I know enough that sometimes you don't need the world. You just need that one person to rule the world with.
Karina Halle
#38. We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.
David Agus
#39. Remember those old math questions you had in algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project I'm working on.
Andy Weir
#40. Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
Jim Rash
#41. You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
Sam Altman
#42. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.
Jeff Greenwald
#43. Now, can I help you with something? I'm new, but I'll do my best to figure out how to get what you need."
...
"That's good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.
Cherise Sinclair
#44. You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.
Bill Belichick
#45. I think we're just hitting the age where we're too old to figure out what the hell we want but know we need to find it someway.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#46. What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
Jeff Bezos
#47. When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Samuel Witwer
#48. I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
Monica Ali
#49. Caroline, I love the shit out of you. So calm down and just tell me what you need. No more holding back. And then I'll tell you what I need, and we'll figure out how to work it out.
Alice Clayton
#50. That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you
without you asking.
Adriana Trigiani
#51. I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?
Carly Fiorina
#52. I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
William Hurt
#53. What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#54. I have to put myself back in the audience's shoes and figure out what they would know and not know. But, there are also times when I do know what's coming up and I maybe need to hint at it, though not in a big way. It's a little bit of both. It's an interesting tightrope to walk.
Joseph Trapanese
#55. The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.
Frederick Lenz
#56. Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Ernie Fletcher
#57. I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.
Jeanine Tesori
#58. If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.
Anton Yelchin
#59. I didn't need to control her ... Hell, I just wanted to sit back and watch her, try to figure out what made her tick and hold on for the ride.
Joanna Wylde
#60. I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.
Pete Wentz
#61. I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we're ready for them. Maybe that's why we met. To try and help each other figure out who we are now.
Holly Jacobs
#62. Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
Sachin Tendulkar
#63. Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will sustain you both mentally and economically.
Martha Stewart
#64. We will need smart people who can figure out how to save what we need to save and let the rest fade away.
John Palfrey
#65. You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.
Demetri Martin
#66. we figure out what we need to learn and then work backwards to see what product will work as an experiment to get that learning.
Eric Ries
#67. You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?
Chuck Schumer
#68. As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.
Azadeh Moaveni
#69. If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.
Katie Kacvinsky
#70. My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#71. There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
Ben Stiller
#72. And you don't even need to say anything. I'm screwed up. I don't know how any of this works anymore than you do. But I do believe you're worth every second it would take to figure it out, Mason said, a smile taking over his features.
Holly Hood
#73. What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.
Magda Gerber
#74. You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
Neal Schon
#75. I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
Adam D'Angelo
#76. Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
Katherine Ellison
#77. Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and do something concrete. I firmly believe that a lot dynamic and revolutionary work flows from those who summon all of their personal energy and just go out and make something.
Andrew Neel
#78. Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.
Dan Groat
#79. All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.
Jeaniene Frost
#80. I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#81. Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
John Polson
#82. She wasn't entertainment for him. He
didn't need her to make him laugh or bolster his ego or to figure him out so he wouldn't have to. A lot of men who said they were looking for a relationship really wanted a combination sex buddy, therapist, and mirror.
Eileen Wilks
#83. Handy then encourages what he calls "portfolio people" to organize their time not based on hours in a week, but rather days in a year. For example, if you need to make $50,000 per year and can figure out a way to make $250 a day, then you only need to work 200 days a year.
Jeff Goins
#84. One advantage of hierarchical, process-laden organizations is that it's easy to figure out with whom you need to talk: Just look for the right box on the right chart, and you've got your person. But the steady state of a successful Internet Century venture is chaos.
Eric Schmidt
#85. Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.
Nicole Krauss
#86. I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
#87. At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
Gail Carriger
#88. Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
Mandy Hale
#89. I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
Nathaniel Rich
#90. Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.
Daniel Tammet
#91. I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is.
Walker Evans
#92. We don't need to have the answers. We'll never have them. They'll come and go and change. And all we can do is figure out the best way to behave when life comes at us. Even if society says it isn't right. Right is so subjective, after all.
Na
#93. Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.
Ester Buchholz
#94. What's yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That's all you have to figure out.
Jim Carrey
#95. It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
Dylan Smith
#96. Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.
Judd Apatow
#97. It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#98. If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
F. Paul Wilson
#99. I've dealt with life the only way I know how. It works for me, and I don't need you or anyone else to try and figure me out or fix me. I am who I am and I've accepted that.
Colleen Hoover
#100. Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.
David Jeremiah
