Figure Out Quotes

• It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Interesting
  • Enemy
  • Figure Out

• We need to figure out ways around those. But those are absolutely fair things we’re asked to do and we’re certainly not complaining about them.

  

  Doug Parker
  • Ways
  • Complain
  • Figure Out

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

  

  Alexander Isley
  • Looks
  • Last
  • Figure Out

• It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

  

  Paul Dano
  • Learning
  • Acting
  • Figure Out

• Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Figure Out

• I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Things
  • Figure Out

• I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Help
  • Lyrics
  • Figure Out

• I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

  

  Roy Jones Jr.
  • Feel
  • Fighter
  • Figure Out

• Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

  

  Steven Pressfield
  • First
  • Figure Out
  • Scares

• It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

  

  Steve McConnell
  • Code
  • Figure Out
  • Mysteries

• We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
  • Family
  • Problems
  • Raised

• Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • React
  • Figure Out
  • Adversary

• I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

  

  Paul Buchheit
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Figure Out

• Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Success
  • Figure Out

• When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Kids
  • History

• Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movie
  • Learning
  • Afternoon

• It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

  

  Nolan Ryan
  • Realize
  • Figure Out
  • Pitcher

• Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Figure Out
  • Stop Doing

• When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Wrong
  • Figure Out

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