Setting Quotes

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

Goal setting is another integral part of achieving any dream. It is what takes a supernatural vision into the material realm where we can see it being accomplished.

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.