- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Figuring Quotes
On the slow process of working things out.
These figuring quotes lean into patience, including one voice describing thirty years spent working something out before finally feeling ready to grow. For a related mindset, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the fun in approaching something closed-minded? I'm very specific; if dialogue is too on-the-nose, or there's a lot of telling and not showing, I'll talk to my manager and let them know the problems I have with it. But, I always go in with fresh eyes. The first pass just needs to be about figuring out little things here and there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just figuring it out for 30 years - 30 years... I think I'm ready now to expand - to grow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And there was a lot that was unknown about the renewable marketplace in 2004, early 2003, when I was planning on it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020