Puzzles Quotes - Page 15

• Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide.

  Oh Land

  Song, Delicate Things, Squares

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• Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.

  Simon Sinek

  Stress, Passion, Loss

  Source: www.personalbrandingblog.com

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Definitions, Creation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.91, Penguin

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• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mother, Fun, Memories

  "It Started With A Guy In Overalls". Interview with Satoru Iwata, www.nintendo.co.uk.

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• Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

  Joss Whedon

  Littles, Bigger, Solve

  "No. 1 Fan Joss Whedon on 'Veronica Mars'". ew.com. October 11, 2005.

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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• We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.

  Christoffer Boe

  Love You, Feelings, Age

  "Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe". Interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter, September 01, 2004.

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• Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

  B. W. Powe

  Practice, Work Out, Canada

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Reading, Waiting

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• When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.

  Kevin Hart

  Business Deals, Talking, Brain

  "Kevin Hart Talks ABOUT LAST NIGHT, Edging out Other Romantic Comedies, Pushing the Envelope, Balancing Comedy and Drama, and Improvising on Set". Interview on the Set, collider.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

  Steve Tisch

  Hollywood, Pieces, Mouths

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Jigsaw Puzzles

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• Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

  Cathy Ladman

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Sky, Pieces

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• My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.

  Richard Grossman

  Book, Jigsaw Puzzles, Creating

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

  Maurice Sendak

  Needs, Sake, Incredibles

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• I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

  Anthony Heald

  Actors, Research, Study

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

  Tom Kenny

  People, Trying, Cameras

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Actors, Pieces

  "INTERVIEW: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Brain, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.

  Kobe Bryant

  Cake, People, Together

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Jobs, Data, Narrative

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Love You, Dark

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• May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

  Garth Nix

  Trying, Pieces, May

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