#figure

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it. ↗

— Roger Miller

#figure #how #one thing #out #talent

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#basically #culture #down #ebb #every

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #environmentalism #figure #greatest #greatest challenge

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#best #communication #different #ever #figure

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #basketball player #because #business #else

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#day #figure #game #hard #i

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#by the time #figure #got #i #out

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. ↗

— Will Oldham

#despise #figure #i #make #okay