Best Setting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.”

Needs Goal Business Self Improvement Financial Determine Setting Finance Settings Business Success Setting Goals Where You Stand Financial Discipline Financial Goals

Author:David Bach

“Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.”

Kind Courses Economy Team Car Intention Investment Climate Climate Change Setting Settings Ideology Eras Global Warming Consumption Evident Historic Free Market Pundits Anachronism

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”

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

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

“Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms”

Knows Night Goal Ideals Exciting Storm Guides Setting Settings Destination Compass Setting Goals Needles

Author:Daniel Boone

“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”

Character Goal Achieve Discipline Achievement Valuable Setting Settings

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.”

Wells Taste Garden Rose Corners Setting Settings Weed Thistles

Author:Robin Lane Fox

“Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.”

Inspirational Belief Interesting Setting Settings Exploration Skepticism Very Interesting

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.”

Needs Children Home Spiritual Family Wife Mets Husband My Wife Supreme Setting Settings Righteousness Loyal Husband And Wife Husband Wife Wives Love Loving My Family Loving Wife

Author:David A. Bednar

“Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).”

Life War Setting Settings Conventions Geneva Waging War Geneva Convention

Author:Paulo Coelho

“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.”

Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections

“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.”

Thinking World Perfect Liberty Gains Setting Settings Commerce

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.”

May Different Government Interest Rights Setting Settings Sovereignty Adverse Invading

Book:1769-1793

Source: 1769-1793

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

Humans Language Mark Setting Settings Traits Translations Rest Of Life

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”

“Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.”

Art Lasts Found Difficult President Sun Happened Members Constitution Setting Painter Settings Rising Chairs Franklin Signing Constitution Of The United States Constitutional Convention

Book:The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

Source: The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”

“Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.”

Way Self Night Music Essentials Findings Setting Settings Finding Yourself Layers Bullshit Clinging Gin Peeling

Author:John D. MacDonald

“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.”

“The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.”

World Want Made Two Matter Games Winning Records Mines Broken Gold Mark London Setting Settings Anniversary Matter Of Time World Records

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.”

Firsts Ideas Age Faces Young Mirrors Setting Settings Recognition No Idea Birthday This Day

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.”

“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.”

Real Form History Movement Theater Theatre Real Life Setting Mediums Settings Artificial Kindred Artifice

Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.”

Thinking World Way Differences Kindness Example Very Good Setting Settings Behave Making A Difference Good Examples Acts Of Kindness Random Acts Of Kindness

Author:Misha Collins

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

Together Film Easy Casts Setting Settings Fog Easy Things

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.”

People Thinking Stories Film Young Sides Challenges Business Hollywood Setting Settings Artistic

Author:Marisa Tomei

“The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.”

People Firsts America Black President White Forget Race Middle Argument Pops Setting Settings Barack Barriers Mama Kansas Mixed Race

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”

“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.”

“As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.”

People Needs Shows Actresses Setting Settings Agents Disregarded

Author:Tia Carrere

“It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.”

Way Writing Long War Stories Film Three Stars Middle I Realized Nine Setting Tales Settings My Way Knights Saga Trilogies Jedi Knights

Author:George Lucas

“Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.”

Knows Natural Church Roots Backgrounds Setting Settings

Author:Aretha Franklin

“There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.”

Want Feelings Actors Energy Bits Team Example Pressure Setting Settings Captains Sheets Good Examples Setting A Good Example

Author:Joel Edgerton

“Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.”

Thinking World Hard Stuff Deals Fiction Hard Work Harder Science Fiction Setting Settings Excitement Unpredictability

Author:Joel Edgerton

“Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Artist Interesting Sadness Quiet Setting Settings Loud Very Interesting Default Interesting Ideas

Author:Glen Hansard

“I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security”

Persons Security Independent Independence Setting Settings Fog Independent Person

Author:Patricia Heaton

“The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity into real estate, the stock market is setting new heights and consumers are generally stepping out more for luxury goods and services. After many years of pulling back, it was fun to see guests flirting with temptation, whether that was a new home, a new car, a new look or just to learn more about the trends. Others were happy to take in all the action.”

“And for the past 10 years Ive been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, theyre all about that bottom line. So its nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.”

People Years Real Play Past Lines Numbers Steps Nice Imagine Bottom Setting Bunch Settings Hanging Out Real Love Bottom Line

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?”

Want Made Matter Might Choices Winning Worry Source Becoming Sight Setting Settings Drivers Awards Starving Millionaire Academy Taxi Academy Awards Commercialism

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.”

Play Turns Games Sports Levels Acting Setting Settings Opponents Tennis

Author:Shawnee Smith

“Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don't have to play up that stuff. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd”

People World May Play Shows Light Stuff Community Laughing Ordinary Shining Privilege Setting Settings Enthusiasm Odd Weekend Idols Nerd Adrift

Author:Louis Theroux

“I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.”

Want Writing Kind I Can Film My Own Seeing Setting Settings Just Being Personal Touch

Author:Kenan Thompson

“I am a firm believer in The Paleo Solution. I maintain a hectic schedule that starts early and finishes late. Filming a television series, maintaining my fitness, and being a mom can be harrowing some days. Since adopting a Paleo way of eating I look and feel better, and I know that I am setting a good example for my daughter.”

“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.”

Years Art Done Form Color Nine Setting Settings Nine Years Geometric Perms Hairdressing

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.”

I Can Shows Light Natural Animal Mystery Behavior Approach Careful Setting Settings Preparation Native Demonstrating

Author:Paul Nicklen

“If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.”

Ifs States Attitude Satisfied Setting Settings Mental Attitude

Book:Swami Panchadasi's Clairvoyance and Occult Powers: A Lost Classic

Source: Swami Panchadasi's Clairvoyance and Occult Powers: A Lost Classic

“In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.”

“A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.”

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