Figures Quotes - Page 18

• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
  At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
  By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
  By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

  Daniel Amen

  Happiness, Caring, Thinking

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• When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

  Scott Belsky

  Keys, Next Steps, Way

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• I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Mom, Mother, Book

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2009). “Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures”, p.21, Bantam

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• I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Self, Solitude

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam

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• The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Christian, Religious, Destiny

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• I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

  Michka Assayas

  Instinct, Intellect, Always Believe

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.92, Penguin

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• Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Israel, Hatred, Doubt

  "A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target" by Slavoj Žižek, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Art, Order, Law

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• I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

  Princess Diana

  Heart, Political, Politics

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• Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Iron

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  Zach Braff

  Liars, Trials, Fudge

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  Takashi Murakami

  Minorities, Influential, Bigs

  "Murakami's Monster Magic". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

  Richard Posner

  Children, Couple, Drunk

  "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

  Moby

  Vegetarianism, Way, Vegan

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• Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Cancer

  "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.

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• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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• The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say, 'Why not?'; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

  Anita Dunn

  Mother, Simple, Two

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• During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, People, Culture

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.”, p.169, Steerforth

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• Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments,      be careful how you speak to yourself;      be careful how you think of yourself;      be careful how you conduct yourself;      be careful how you develop yourself.

  Tony Dungy

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.105, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Wisdom, Delight

  'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'

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