61 Quotes About Figuring

  • Author Julie Powell
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    I was painted into a corner. I was completely lost -- I didn't know what I was going to do. I wanted to learn to cook. ... It wasn't until the project was nearly done that I really understood that what I was trying to do was figuring out a new way of living and finding new experiences in life.

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  • Author Loren Roberts
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    They are usually the ones in there looking at the computer, figuring out who they passed or what they need to do,

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  • Author Tom Renney
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    Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game, figuring we'd arrived. It's not about arriving. It's about working to get somewhere. And we didn't work tonight - not nearly as hard as we have to.

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  • Author Karin Slaughter
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    If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

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  • Author Neal Stephenson
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    For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.

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  • Author Charlie Whitehurst
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    I think we're more methodical right now. We're still figuring this thing out. We're only four games in. ... When it all gels, I think we'll be all right.

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  • Author Emily Watson
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    I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

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  • Author Gary Waddock
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    Shabazz has turned down two offers, and he will probably now wait until the summer before figuring out what he wants to do.

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