Top 100 Quotes About Setting
#1. I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
Drew Brees
#2. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
Alexa Von Tobel
#3. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#4. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. I spun and jogged around the SUV. Climbing in I readjusted the seat from Godzilla setting to Normal so my feet could reach the pedals.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
Auliq Ice
#7. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!
Donna McGoff
#8. Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.
Epictetus
#9. I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
Richard Carlile
#10. The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
Dannel Malloy
#11. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#12. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#13. Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.
Billy Graham
#14. My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.
Carolyn Murphy
#15. Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
Katherine Paterson
#16. I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.
Alessandra Torre
#17. In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
Natalie Massenet
#18. I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus
#19. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
#20. Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.
Morris Gleitzman
#22. A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis' body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#23. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#24. Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
James Rozoff
#25. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again
Seth Godin
#26. You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.
Rob Liano
#27. The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.
Alfred Goodwin
#28. I've got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a son who likes setting things on fire. - Adam Vasic
Kelley Armstrong
#29. The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#30. Fate thought she was pulling us apart, when all along, she was setting the path for spectacular crash.
Nina G. Jones
#31. As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
Daniela Hantuchova
#32. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
#33. And this should not surprise us. The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#34. Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#36. As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.
George H. W. Bush
#37. I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.
Jewel
#38. If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
Ben Carson
#39. For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting.
Alessia Dickson
#40. The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#41. There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
Joel Edgerton
#42. Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences
Sunday Adelaja
#43. It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#44. So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.
Jerry Della Femina
#46. You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.
Terry Pratchett
#47. Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.
Bryant McGill
#48. In summary, Schmucker argued that theology was contextual in nature, and that theological systems and expressions - indeed the church itself - had to be changed to accommodate their cultural and philosophical setting.
Albert B. Collver
#49. This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram
#50. The people setting out on these walks weren't seeking to conquer peaks or test themselves against maps and miles. They were looking for a mystical communion with the land; they walked backwards in time to an imagined past suffused with magical, native glamour:
Helen Macdonald
#51. Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.
Sheila Johnson
#53. It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.
Dave Eggers
#54. You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair
#55. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#56. I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
J. Tillman
#57. Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
Flannery O'Connor
#58. And, at the end of a long night, as you crawl under the duvet, there is a sense of quiet satisfaction in knowing that the rest of the working world is just setting out on the morning commute. *
John Sutherland
#59. The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
#60. Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
#61. As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.
Raymond Buckland
#63. I had a dream about you last night... if atomic clocks are synced up to a satellite to keep their time accurate, where does the satellite get its time? Is there a chain of atomic clocks setting time for other atomic clocks?
Marshall Ramsay
#64. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.
Derrick Rose
#65. For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
Bill Frisell
#66. Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
Joseph M. Juran
#67. Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
#68. people who are obese are widely seen as less competent in a workplace setting than those who are of a normal weight.
Anonymous
#69. Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.
Gina Bellman
#70. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.
Margaret Atwood
#71. In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocket books and paradigms.
Scott Parker
#72. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#73. Holy mother of whoring nuns she's hot. Fuck! I haven't just crossed the border into boner territory, Mr Happy's erected a tent from my jeans and is setting up camp there.
Carmen Jenner
#74. In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.
Dinesh D'Souza
#76. Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.
Parul Wadhwa
#77. There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.
Nancy Werlin
#78. Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.
Suze Orman
#79. I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
Max Lucado
#80. Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
Steve Wozniak
#81. Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
Louis De Bernieres
#82. The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
Ann Macbeth
#83. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.
John Irving
#84. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.
Mark Cuban
#85. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.
Richard G. Scott
#86. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#87. Give me the setting sun, and I'll be a richer man than most / For never have I seen gold like that which glows above the earth. / Give me the night sky, and I'll be rich beyond all ruin / For never have I seen diamonds like those that dance beside the moon.
Rachel Morgan
#88. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.
Louis C.K.
#89. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.
Tony Robbins
#90. Speaking with her always felt like sitting on a seashore. Hearing the waves and feeling them crashing into my feet, While gazing the setting sun and the way he colours the whole sky. I never got tired of it.
Akshay Vasu
#91. The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#92. Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Stephen Covey
#93. Scrubbed, combed, as tidy as two dudes setting off on a double date, they went out to the car.
Truman Capote
#94. Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
#95. The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.
Josh Radnor
#96. If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
Don DeLillo
#97. So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known ... I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well.
Sarah Dessen
#98. His eyes, I'd long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.
Richelle Mead
#99. Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched 'Merlin' has probably concluded that it's not accurate whatsoever - but, it's not meant to be. It's not meant to be a true telling. It's in a fantasy setting, it's really concentrating on the fantasy element.
Colin Morgan
#100. Think carefully, Gideon. I have exes in my past, too. You're setting the precedent now for how I'll handle them. I'm taking my cues from you.
Sylvia Day
