Figures Quotes - Page 3

• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

  Sonny Perdue

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Ambition, Thinking

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• It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

  Robert Bourassa

  Mind, May, Difficult

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Warren Spahn

  Games, Two, Magic

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• I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

  Garth Ennis

  Hands, People, Abuse

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• Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Political, Literature

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• Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

  Etty Hillesum

  Greed, Intellectual, Information

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.146, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

  Tom Cochrane

  Care, Wanted, Chests

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• My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

  Herschel Walker

  Writing, Math, Favorite Subject

  "Gridiron Sensation". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1991.

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• Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Eye, Water

  William Cullen Bryant, “Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids”

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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  Nancy Astor

  Lonely, Pioneers, May

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• Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

  David Duchovny

  Loss, Sacrifice, Privacy

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• It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

  Sam Brownback

  Religious, Government, Hands

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• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

  Sidney Sheldon

  New York, Angel, Lunch

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• There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

  Erma Bombeck

  Body, Want, Taught

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Wire, Bills

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• A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

  Vivica Fox

  Sexy, Nice, Self Confidence

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• Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Positive, Liars

  "Land Your Dream Job: High-Performance Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired, and Get Ahead". Book by John Middleton, Ken Langdon, and Nikki Cartwright, 2007.

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• Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

  Debi Thomas

  Real, Life Changing, Titles

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• My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

  Kerry King

  Dragons, Eagles, Firsts

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• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

  Gale Norton

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  Zell Miller

  Years, Issues, Glitter

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

  Virgil Thomson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

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• You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

  Andrew Weil

  Figure Skating, Experiments

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