Figures Quotes - Page 36

• Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Geometry

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• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  Larry Niven

  Moon, Technique, Want

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Study

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• I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

  Nicole Richie

  Trying, Waste, Wasting My Time

  UK Marie Claire Interview, www.alloy.com. August 2007.

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• What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

  Stan Musial

  Hurt, Trying, Ifs

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• Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Hatred, Mask

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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• Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.

  Debby Applegate

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

  Wes Craven

  Historical, Mask, Collections

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• The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

  Bill Gates

  People, Trying, Wake Up

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• I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.

  Lily Allen

  People, Convinced

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• The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Skills, Creative, Flying

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• I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.

  James Hillman

  Character, Night, Animal

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• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Real, Writing

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

  Tom Upton

  People, Want, Normal

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• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  Nadia Giosia

  Fun, Italian, Cake

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

  John Baldessari

  Photography, Art, Decided

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.

  Leonard Pitts

  Men

  Leonard Pitts (2009). “Before I Forget”, Agate Pub Incorporated

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• You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Mean, People, Doe

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• Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?

  Megyn Kelly

  Jesus, Kids, Men

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• Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Maps, Road Maps

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• I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and the art market will most likely be very different in ten years. However, if you are the art equivalent of Van Halen, you don't really have to change anything. But if you are not Van Halen, then it is time to figure how to adapt to all the changes.

  Mark Edward

  Art, Believe, Years

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Geography And History, Fabric

  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

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• I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

  Edgar Guest

  Simple, Everyday Things, People

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