I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.
I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty. . . embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?
Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.
I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.
Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.