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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Teacher, Stupid, Math

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• After saying the jobs bill is paid for, President Obama now says that it will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can't figure out if he's the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Fall, Years

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• I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Trying, Needs

  "Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965".

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• I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

  Ellen Gallagher

  Believe, Cutting, Bird

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• I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

  Kiki Smith

  Trying, Mystery, Printmaking

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• When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

  Heinz-Otto Peitgen

  Impact, Years, Important

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• Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

  Dana White

  Mma, Giving, Trying

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• The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

  Steven Zaillian

  Directors, Done, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Trying

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• A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

  George Catlin

  Beautiful, Men, Gnarly

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Running, Company

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as I could. Then I spent the next twenty years trying to figure out how to run the least amount of miles needed to finish a marathon. And I've come to the conclusion the second way is much more enjoyable.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Years, Careers

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• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Thinking, Perspective, Alive

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• This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

  Bill Hicks

  Children, Ideas, America

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• One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.

  Takuan Soho

  Mean, Trying, Doe

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Knowing, Clay, Our Words

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• I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Believe

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• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  John Shimkus

  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Math, Player

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Interview with Lauren Lynch, bleacherreport.com. December 1, 2010.

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• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Return, Bitter

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