Setting Quotes

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.

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

The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

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.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool.

I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.