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“Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.”

Ifs Home Kids Together Remember Work Rooms Teacher Ready Setting Settings Beer Eggs Breakfast Invites Milk Family Life Living Room Orderly Housework Muffins Plowing

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.”

Believe Care Three I Believe Sleep Rooms Color Habit Fairs Setting Settings Evening Far Away Living Room Soothing Knitting Cursing Isle

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.”

Ideas Home Rooms Taste Setting Settings Relief Hospitality Favorites Things Your Favorite Rediscovery

Book:Entertaining

Source: Entertaining

“Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.”

Children Self Reading Rooms Scene Setting Settings Bores Indulgence Showing Off Self Indulgence

Author:Mark Haddon

“The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.”

Book Light Rooms Sun West Setting Golden Settings Casting Beam Somber Beams Of Light

Book:Mary Marie (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Mary Marie (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.”

Different Stories Feelings Rooms Opinion Unique Setting Settings Realistic Scenery Backdrop

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.”

Thinking Should Mind Ideas Evil Rooms Five Becoming Quiet Eating Function Drinking Various Setting Settings Desirable Eating And Drinking Quiet Room

Author:Dogen

“What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Enough Happens Turns Realizing My Own Rooms Numbers Roles Crazy Ready Setting Settings Helpful Capability Look At Me

Author:Mitchell Baker