Quotes About A Set

#1. Sometimes you only have a fleeting moment in time to grasp an opportunity, as fate may never again line up a set of circumstances in the same way.

C.E. Graham

#2. I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'

Rory Culkin

#3. the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles

Linda S. Sanford

#4. We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

Charlie Byrd

#5. I've always felt I had the talent. I've done a lot in my life. I've written, been in bands, done live TV for a network in Perth. I'm well-trained when it comes to being on a set, which gives you freedom.

Paul Eenhoorn

#6. My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

Milton Berle

#7. I can't think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.

Jennifer Niven

#8. I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

Bryan Greenberg

#9. You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable.

Raymond Chandler

#10. I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

Hilary Swank

#11. A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal.

Anonymous

#12. I use the word "man" loosely. A better description would be "the most beautiful specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens with a set of XY chromosomes to grace the planet Earth at this moment, or any other era, epoch, or age in history.

Elle Lothlorien

#13. Don't feel so sad and disappointed when the telephone conversation with a friend starts to slow down and become stilted. Just try to be smart, lay it gentle and see it as a great given opportunity, a set up to draw attention to your long awaited goals.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#15. If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

David Wessel

#16. Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

Roger Federer

#17. And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

#18. How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

Frances Fisher

#19. I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Joe Rogan

#20. To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Jodi Picoult

#21. A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra ...

Pamela Redmond Satran

#22. Hybrid Thinking is a set of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking processes we will need to solve many of today's complex problems.

Pearl Zhu

#23. Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Elaine Pagels

#24. The last time he'd had a ride this rough, there was a set of twins involved. "You okay?" Torin's voice in his military surplus PCU sounded distant. Flat. "Rough ride," he growled without relaxing his jaw. "You're thinking about the twins, aren't you?" "Might be." That had sounded more like Torin.

Tanya Huff

#25. In essence, Agile is a philosophy and a set of principles.

Pearl Zhu

#26. You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.

Daniel Nayeri

#27. If you want to know what you are, you are a set of highly well-intentioned young jackasses.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

Morrissey

#29. A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Joe Abercrombie

#30. The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Kelly Clarkson

#31. Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#32. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

Joshua Bloch

#33. I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.

Marco Rubio

#34. I keep like simple thing in my head, so obviously is working. Then it's luck. To be honest, look at set point. I hit one of the worst drop shots I ever hit and he hit a frame It's pure luck, you know, to haven't drop a set. So you need to have it sometime, and I hope I will have more.

Gael Monfils

#35. 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

Geoff Shepherd

#36. In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture.

William W. Braham

#37. Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. Running for me is not an activity I work into my life or a pursuit with a set end point. Rather, it is an integral piece of who I am and hope to always be.

Hal Koerner

#39. A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Pearl Zhu

#40. The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

Mark Twain

#41. Most of us are one of two things: blind or chicken-shit. We wouldn't know a crossroads in our lives if it had a set of stoplights and a Denny's.

Larry Brooks

#42. Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

Eric Liu

#43. For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

Ethan Embry

#44. A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.

Beth Ramsay

#45. (T)he world is always changing. Always. We can't give the next generation a set of guarantees. Best we can do is help them be smart enough and tough enough to deal with whatever comes. You know as well as I do that we're not going to be there forever for them.

Jonathan Maberry

#46. He was wearing a scuba mask and snorkel set pushed off his handsome face . . . a set of flippers that slapped over the slick floor as he approached the pool's edge . . . a slingshot bathing suit that was hot pink . . . and a children's

J.R. Ward

#47. Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process.

Jael McHenry

#48. By making offers Modular, the business can create and improve each offer in isolation, then mix and match offers as necessary to better serve their customers. It's like playing with LEGOS: once you have a set of pieces to work with, you can put them together in all sorts of interesting ways.

Josh Kaufman

#49. When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Howard Schultz

#50. There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

Rose Byrne

#51. In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.

Mark Zuckerberg

#52. Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other's houses, and the burying ground, and the sea?

H.P. Lovecraft

#53. Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God?

Warren W. Wiersbe

#54. Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Berkowitz

#55. The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

John Updike

#56. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

David Mamet

#57. Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.

Maya Banks

#58. One of the things that should go into the writer's notebook is a set of experiments with the sentence. A convenient and challenging place to begin is with the long sentence, one that runs to at least two pages.

John Gardner

#59. When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

#60. It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Eric Stoltz

#61. I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Maurice Sendak

#62. With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

Orit Gadiesh

#63. I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#64. Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Aldous Huxley

#65. I don't have a set routine, but I try to squeeze in a workout every day, whether it's taking a hike, taking a Pilates class, or just putting in a workout DVD. Whatever it takes!

Jacob Vargas

#66. For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

Marilyn French

#67. Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

Dane Cook

#68. I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

Julianna Margulies

#69. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.

Jessica Posner

#70. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

Frederick Lenz

#71. Dreams and visions are not always intended to be interpreted or analyzed. At times they say exactly what they mean, providing a set of images and meanings to be taken for no more or less than they are.

Hal Zina Bennett

#72. I always tell people, I can't teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can't teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga.

Beryl Bender Birch

#73. I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

Rico Lebrun

#74. Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.

Roy Peter Clark

#75. I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.

Leslie Jamison

#76. Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

Jonathan Kellerman

#77. When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

Jonathan Banks

#78. People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

Joanna Newsom

#79. Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.

Thomas Friedman

#80. A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

Nancy Chodorow

#81. that every man must have a code, an ethos, a set of convictions that dictate his purpose and behavior in life. This code "forms the box" in which he lives and moves and makes decisions.

Daniel A. Biddle

#82. But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Stephen King

#83. The blacks or coloured people are treated more cruel by the white Christans of America than devils themselves ever treated a set of men, women, and children on this earth.
- David Walker 1829

David L. Walker

#84. A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it.

Sunday Adelaja

#85. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

Michael J. Fox

#86. President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

David Mamet

#87. Here is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being

Arthur Conan Doyle

#88. There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

Eric San

#89. Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.

Laura Moncur

#90. A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

Zedd

#91. Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

Emily Rose

#92. There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

Skeet Ulrich

#93. Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

Barack Obama

#94. The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Joan Robinson

#95. Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models yawning to be optimized by a mindset that is educated in a data-driven methodology.

Keith Holdaway

#96. With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

Steve Garvey

#97. Sets are fundamental because every mathematical structure,
object or entity can be described as a set. Logic is fundamental because it
allows us to understand the meanings of statements, to deduce information
about mathematical structures and to uncover further structures.

Richard Heath Hammack

#98. The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Samuel R. Delany

#99. The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

Ken Wilber

#100. It was like exactly what it was. It was like a set of claws tearing through my flesh.

Kristopher Jansma