Figures Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure out how to solve problems I see in front of me. That's why I looked at the poverty issue. I got involved in lots of things to address it, and one of them was money lending with loans and credits and savings accounts, and in the process I created Grameen Bank. So you can also have social objectives. Ask yourself these questions: Who are you? What kind of world do you want?

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Issues, Addresses

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• You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

  Andre Agassi

  Success, Business, Believe

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• But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Play, Making Love, Musician

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• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  Scott McNealy

  Running, Kids, Giving

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• Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Fall, Trying, Use

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Kids, Looks

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• Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

  Mal Peet

  Numbers, Tangled, Together

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

  John Laroche

  Mean, Profound, World

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• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  Nicholas Ray

  Opposites, Theatre, Twenties

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• Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.

  Michael Oher

  Teacher, Mistake, Ideas

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• I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

  Johnny Ramone

  People, Age, World

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• A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

  Whitey Herzog

  Want, Way, Slick

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.

  Tom Segev

  Eye, Europe, Class

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• No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

  Jennifer Echols

  Too Late, Want, Detectives

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.

  Rachel DeWoskin

  Mistake, Book, Mean

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• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

  Fatih Birol

  Simple, Iraq, Chinese

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• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Crazy, World

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• The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

  Warren Buffett

  Obligation, Behinds, Left

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• How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

  Phil Plait

  Father, Thinking, Afterlife

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• Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

  Alice Clayton

  Track, Coincidence, Odd

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• It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not boobs who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.

  Lissa Rankin

  Heart, Mirrors, Soul

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• 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

  Wind, World, Complaining

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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