Figures Quotes

Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I'm really convinced I'm not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington