#figure

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#figuring #i #just #like #out

It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#des #des moines #else #figured #great

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#connected #down #figured #genius #go

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself. ↗

— Jodi Sweetin

#basically #figure #hard #how #identified

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself! ↗

— James Taylor

#afford #being #figure #forward #i

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me. ↗

— Pam Bondi

#attorney general #because #become #figurehead #general

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#audience #best #better #every #figure

Obstacles don't have to stop you. 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

#climb #figure #give #go #how