Setting Quotes

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

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.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

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.

when you look at setting your mind on things above in terms of heaven...It means being who I was always created to be in the real light of Jesus-the person I was actually created to know.

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.