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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

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I have six locks on my door all in a row.
When I go out, I lock every other one.
I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks,
they are always locking three.
- Elayne Boosler

The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time.
I don't believe in diets.
Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor

Sometimes I can't figure designers out.
It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
- Erma Bombeck

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,'
probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
- Woody Allen

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home,
I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain,
a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure.
It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
- Thomas Frank

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood.
If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad,
but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
- Alan Ladd

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try
to figure out just how many times they can kick us
in the teeth while still taking our money.
- Paul Weyrich

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking,
and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.
- Sid Vicious

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
- Katarina Witt

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months
and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
- William Hurt

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

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save
a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
- Alvin Adams

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses
possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man
at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf

There's just one thing I can't figure out.
My income tax!
- Nat King Cole

If you can figure out my success on the screen,
you're a better man than I. - Alan Ladd

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement.
And I needed to because I needed to figure how -
you know there is no such thing as "cold."
There is only less heat.
- Alton Brown

It took me a long time to figure out how to act,
and how to conduct myself in the business so I could
get what I felt I needed to support my potential and
give them what they wanted.
- Harrison Ford

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
- Scott Hamilton

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts,
I felt God was allowing me to do that.
- Alfre Woodard

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months,
then I set it aside for a while so that when I come
back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.
- Margaret Haddix

I figure lots of predictions is best.
People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
- Alan Cox

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life
disappeared until he was locked inside.
That is a figure quite extreme.
- Michael Tippett

In fifty years of covering the sport,
of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
- Dick Schaap

Competition helps people figure it out.
- Brian McBride

I was trying to figure out what to do next,
I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools -
software people could use every day,
particularly to help organize their lives.
- Mitch Kapor

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
- Lance Armstrong

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles
will figure among the great directors of our time.
- Arthur Cohn

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest,
the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
- Georges Rouault

I'm plagued with indecision in my life.
I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
- Chuck Close

I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it.
- Lee Petty

I always write with music.
It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of
music for what I'm working on.
Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
- Kate DiCamillo

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance,
an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
- Seamus Heaney

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
- Barbara Kingsolver

I think for me it was a natural transition to move
full time into acting rather than figure skating.
- Julie Benz

Every writer has to figure out what works best -
and often has to select and discard different tools
before they find the one that fits.
- Nora Roberts

Focused.
I'm a hustler.
And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways
to do what I like without having to do much else.
- Mos Def

We all have fertile creative periods and times when
we can't figure out how we ever did it.
- Cynthia Weil

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out.
After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life
trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
- William Hurt

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter,
you jump for it.
- Claudette Colbert

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.
- Brian Walker

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well,
and then don't do it.
- Doug Coupland

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
- Lee Trevino

The first 20 stories written about a public figure
set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
- Charles W. Colson

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress,
and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of
the men being six feet high.
- George Catlin

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to
be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
- Tom Clancy

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say,
I've got to figure out how this book's going to end.
Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
- Anthony Doerr

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure.
The manipulation that all politicians use on one level
or another is so transparent.
- Dean Koontz

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,'
usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
- Bern Williams

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get
on the right side of the value divide -
how to define America as a place of the common good
and not a playground of the strong.
- Todd Gitlin

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant
battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write,
but I figure that's part of the territory.
- Robert Sheckley

There are times I can't even figure myself out.
- Aaliyah

No one told me about boys.
I had to figure it out myself.
The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow
slower than women mentally.
- Elena Anaya

He was definitely a father figure for all of us.
Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.
- George Martin

It's true hard work never killed anybody,
but I figure, why take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan

If I was hearing something I couldn't do,
I would figure out how to do it.
- Bill Bruford

What I loved about the acting class was that you got
to think all day long about a person that wasn't you,
and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted,
what they dreamed.
- Beth Henley

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance,
and that's a truly staggering figure.
- John M. McHugh

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face.
My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
- Barbara Cartland

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from
the figure drawing classes I once instructed.
- Frank Bruno

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over,
much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing.
It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
- George Thorogood

Well, I can't figure out God.
- Oral Roberts

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very
real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
- Sean Penn

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have
its own momentum and will carry into the video release.
So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.
- Jay Roach

Every man I meet wants to protect me.
I can't figure out what from.
- Mae West

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in
in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and
how much subject matter is there.
- Jim Dine

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me,
I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
- Tom T. Hall

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
- Ryan White

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie