Figures Quotes - Page 10

• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Criminals, Literature

  Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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  We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Soul And Body, Asks

  "Aristotle's Psychology". Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.

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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Figure Skating, Pedals

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  No one can figure out your worth but you.

  Pearl Bailey

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Fashion, Hair

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• I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Believe, Interesting

  "Zappos CEO: Don’t Network, Build Relationships" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

  Jon Meacham

  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

  Justin Trudeau

  Important, Watches, News

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• I just need to figure out how things work.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Needs

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• I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

  Don Watson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Trying

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• Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

  Peter Drucker

  Analysis, Use, Development

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• If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

  Ben Fountain

  Long, Gone, Way

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.76, Canongate Books

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

  Steven Pressfield

  Scare, Firsts

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• Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.

  Jacob Collins

  Beauty, Fall, Games

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

  Steve Vai

  Sight, Trying, Want

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• Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, Imagination

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

  John Venn

  Science, Sight, Use

  "Symbolic Logic". book by John Venn, 1881.

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• A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Book, Voice

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• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Body, Torso

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.

  Eva Herzigova

  Worry, Care, Way

  "Eva Herzigova Is Confident She'll Shed Baby Weight" by Silvia Sansoni, people.com. October 30, 2007.

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