Puzzles Quotes - Page 20

• In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

  Bertrand Russell

  Creative, Done, Firsts

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• Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

  Michael Behe

  Doubt, Earth, Reason

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• We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.

  Betty Eadie

  Spiritual, Powerful, Unique

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• I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

  Paula Cole

  New York, Tvs, Crosswords

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• I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that...There are so many things that I don't even know and would love to discover more about. I was so upset I had to leave [Europe] before Paris Fashion Week, but then I was like..."Oh wait, my album is coming out."

  Selena Gomez

  Fashion, Europe, Paris

  "Selena Gomez Details Her Style ‘Revival’". Interview with Lauren McCarthy, wwd.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do. I start every day with a protein shake, with my vanilla Almond Breeze, and my kids start their day the same way as well. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies. And also taking the time to enjoy things, and to appreciate the process.

  Kerri Walsh

  Smart, Kids, Appreciate

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Let's say I take a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of the casino in Las Vegas. That type of pattern might suggest I'm just a tourist. But if my next one is of another dam or electrical station, someone might say 'Well, that's kind of strange'. What do the different pieces of the puzzle mean when you put them together? And one of the advantages of geographic profiling in geography is a common denominator for so many different types of information sources.

  Kim Rossmo

  Mean, Vegas, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Pain, Sometimes

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

  Juliette Lewis

  Different, Pieces, Tvs

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

  Judy Blume

  Together, Pieces, Firsts

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

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• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Trying, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

  Erik Parker

  Song, Different, Albums

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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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 think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it."

  Serinda Swan

  Home, Thinking, Play

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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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• [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.

  Kerri Walsh

  Smart, Pieces, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Hate, Character, Writing

  "This much I know: Patricia Cornwell". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.

  Ed Gordon

  Couple, Air, Talking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Writing, Play, Interesting

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• I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one.

  Stuart Duncan

  Son, Thinking, Missing

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• I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

  Nas

  New York, Mind, States

  Song: N.Y. State of Mind, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Inspire, Mystery

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

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• I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

  Norman Mailer

  Want, Retiring, Crosswords

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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