#puzzle

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other. ↗

— Georges Perec

#meditations #puzzles #design

Life is puzzle unsolved. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#puzzle #life

I would prefer not to. ↗

— Herman Melville

#melville #mystery #nobody #puzzle #secret

But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It came from the spot in my skull that feels the burning need to unravel puzzles, finish crosswords, indulge in Internet games, and read all the mystery books I can get my grubby little paws on. Like it or not, need it or not, and want it or not, I can't leave a good mystery alone. ↗

— Cherie Priest

#puzzles #solving-mysteries #motivational

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world. ↗

— Ville Valo

#anything #i #know #life #like

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#geek #i #like #live #much

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doing #egotism #new #new york #new york times

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#god #gone #had #hadn #him

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ↗

— William Feather

#am #claim #deed #done #good

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#big #every #everyone #extra #fill