Puzzles Quotes - Page 19

• A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

  Anna Quindlen

  World, Stores, Always Working

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

  Michio Kaku

  Ideas, Two, Consciousness

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Enjoy, Melody

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

  Andrew McMahon

  Hard Times, Feels, Connecting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

  Jon Connor

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Roles, Significant

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• Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, Book, People

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.

  Erica Enders-Stevens

  Team, People, Important

  Source: www.draglist.com

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• Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

  Prince Charles

  Humility, Men, Thinking

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• People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

  Felix Adler

  People, Diversity, House

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• The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

  Steve Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Challenges

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• I think people moving through space and the way they say lines, it's a puzzle to be solved every time. But there's a right way to do it that feels natural. And it's just kind of finding that right thing.

  Timothy Miller

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.

  Andy Cohen

  Falling In Love, Finals, Pieces

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• Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

  Brian May

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Heaven, Approval

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• If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

  Bill Gates

  Optimism, Empathy, Secret

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• I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Party, Silly, Kids

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• Yes, okay, it's cool to be quirky, maybe, on the side. Do some puzzles, make puzzles, whatever, learn how to ride a unicycle. That's cool when it's on the side and you have a plan. What happens when you remove the plan? What you're left with is a guy who likes to do anagrams. And doesn't have a job... Sweet, that's a catch.

  Demetri Martin

  Sweet, Jobs, Guy

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• I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Fun, Years, Ideas

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.

  Ferruccio Busoni

  Giving, Together, Solutions

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• Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Reality, Answers, Limits

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

  Christine Jennings

  Religious, Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

  Oliver Harris

  Missing, Pieces, Might

  Source: bigother.com

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• I choose to not ignore or push away emotional pain. Instead, I allow it to move through me. Sometimes, that's quietly working on a puzzle and listening to an all-strings Pandora station, and others, it's being vulnerable with a trusted friend. Either way, I let it have its place.

  Jennifer Widerstrom

  Pain, Moving, Emotional

  "Jennifer Widerstrom: Fears, Philanthropy, and Fitness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Moral, Negotiation

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• My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

  Scott Kim

  Meaningful, Player, Goal

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels.

  Sasha Cagen

  Order, Personality, Inner Strength

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