I Quotes
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“I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.”
“I set fire to fear because fear doesn’t deserve my attention.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.”
“I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I set goals, but they're mostly very personal goals. I never try and set a goal where 'I want to win this,' or 'I want to do this,' where other people can affect what I do. If I want to swim a new best time, I sit down and work out the best way of doing that. Whether I can shave a few tenths of a second off a turn or the start, my goal is putting them all together in a race. That's the way I set my goals.”
“I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet”
“I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.”
Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval
“I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time”
“I set little goals and as I hit those little goals I know they're moving me forward.”
“I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.”
“I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.”
“I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in which anything and everything are open to conversation and in which the thought experiment is a means by which to posit all manner of different realities, potential futures.”
“I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”
“I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.”
“I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.”
“I set my phone with motivational quotes to go off on random days and times. Like, 'You're stronger than you think you are.' I'll forget about it, then one will pop up and it'll give me a little boost.”
“I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.”
“I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history”
Source: Women and Art: Contested Territory
“I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.”
Source: Out of Bounds
“I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.”
“I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.”
“I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.”
“I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.”
“I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.”
“I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.”
“I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.”
“I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.”
“I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.”
“I set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
...
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“I set off. What a gait. Stiffness of the lower limbs, as if nature had denied me knees, extraordinary splaying of the feet to the right and left of the line of march. The trunk, on the contrary, as if by the effect of a compensatory mechanism, was as flabby as an old ragbag, tossing wildly to the unpredictable jolts of the pelvis.”
Source: First Love and Other Novellas
“I set off, off to kill the man I love.”
“I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!”
“I set out a loaf of zucchini-pandan bread, the green coloring from the extract adding an interesting tinge to the crumb. The grassy, floral taste complemented the neutral flavor of the zucchini well, and the turbinado sugar I'd sprinkled on top added a delicious crunch.”
Source: Homicide and Halo-Halo
“I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.”
Source: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham
“I set out in a lordly manner to offer you heaven and earth. I find that all I have to give you is Oxford—which is yours already.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.”
“I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.”
“I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.”
“I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.”
“I set out to be the best and I am.”
“I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.”
“I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.”
“I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.”
“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
“I set out to make my dream happen, and I did it through action.”
Source: The Abc's Of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets Of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss
“I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.”
“I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.”
Source: Science and Human Values