Once You Set Your Mind Quotes

#1. To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Les Paul

#2. Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

Laird Barron

#3. Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

David Sedaris

#4. At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach - it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Sydney J. Harris

#5. Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.

Earl Nightingale

#6. I don't think there has been a single thing in the history of forever that my wife hasn't accomplished once she set her mind to it." "Only you could find a way to make absolute, unrepentant stubbornness sound like a virtue and not a sin.

L.M. Pruitt

#7. Picture a girl with her arms full of small packages, too many to hold all at once. When they topple and fall all around her, she stoops down and scoops them all back up, literally re-collecting all the gifts that are already hers. To set your mind is to recollect truth that already belongs to you.

Emily P. Freeman

#8. It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the mind has been stored with useful knowledge and strengthened by being used, the regulation of the behaviour may safely be left to its guidance without the aid of formal rules.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

Eric Shinseki

#11. Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

Eileen Wilks

#12. Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. I played in Kent's triumphant Second XI Trophy final team last season, ironically against Hampshire 2nds at the Rose Bowl last September, finishing with 2-17 off six overs.

James Hibberd

#15. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.

Amy Hatvany

#16. I just think God put me on this earth as a tool ... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

Tito Ortiz

#17. I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.

P.C. Cast

#18. Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

Louis L'Amour