Figures Quotes - Page 33

• Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

  Bruce Barton

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

  Debbie Harry

  Stars, Ideas, Rocks

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• It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pity, Should, Mere

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• Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

  Anne Lamott

  Sometimes, Who You Are

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• Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Memories, Play

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

  Leo Rosten

  Trying, Firsts, Succeed

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• Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

  Leighton Meester

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• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Profound

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Chance, Over It

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• The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

  Alexander Isley

  Looks, Way, Lasts

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• The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

  Danny Elfman

  Land, Four, Want

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• They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

  Michio Kaku

  Average, Volunteer, Voodoo

  "Nuclear-powered NASA craft to zoom by Earth on Tuesday". www.cnn.com. August 16, 1999.

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• We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

  Bob Goff

  Safe, Sacred, Settling

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 25, 2014

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• The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Perfect

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• When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

  Michael McKean

  Way, Figure Skating, Profit

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• There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

  Ben Stiller

  Tired, People, Sick

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• The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Attitude, Shoes, Feet

  Hartman Rector, Jr. (2011). “Already to Harvest”, p.23, Cedar Fort

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• When the tribal groups of december trade
  Seated in the figure of crocodile
  And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made
  Real. All... For more than one reason they smile.
  These codes are writ in secret, feeling fine
  To keep what's private to my self since we
  All must face our maker in our own ryhme
  And reasons for being ( from regrets) free
  So let the memory of your glory
  Be the tenderness heartfelt love starkly
  In the sky of my mind vast and pretty
  Evermore glittering simplicity
  Where in the truth of country grows sober
  And sunshines through fog to radiate wonder

  John Armstrong

  Country, Song, Nature

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• I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

  Barbara Johnson

  Commitment, Worry, Details

  Mary Graham, Barbara Johnson (2007). “Amazing Freedom: Devotions to Free Your Spirit and Fill Your Heart”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

  Ken Wilber

  Past, Facts, Stills

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Homosexual, Leonardo

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• You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

  Meghan Trainor

  Barbie Dolls, Sticks, Knows

  Song: All About That Bass, Album: Title

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• You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

  Josh Linkner

  Winning, Class, World

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2011

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