Browsing Topic Best Figuring It Quotes

If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.

The conventional wisdom is – people say this all the time – you should only write something when you’re far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that’s not true. That’s a story that you’re telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It’s the only truth that we ever know. And I’m interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You’re figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you’re doing it.

I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

I’m figuring it out as I go, I’m good at that.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

Learning what you don’t want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.

I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn’t me sitting in a room by myself. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I knew Shin [Biyajima] a little bit early on, but it’s funny because where I really met Shin, and where he made a strong impression on me, was in Jackson Hole. I sledded back to a secret zone way deep in the Jackson backcountry to some freeriding. I got out there and followed some snowmobile tracks figuring it’s just some snowmobilers.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I’m starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It’s a process of elimination until you find what you love.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.

This is a competitive business – there are a lot of women who want these jobs, but experience, education, and smarts go a long way. I’m still figuring it out – I learn new things every day. Once you stop learning, you should get out of the business. It’s just really about being hungry for more.

Love is support, kindness, and warmth. That’s all I have so far; I’m still figuring it out.