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“If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.”

Ifs Writing Done Written Materials Letting Go Lows Sight Satisfied Setting Settings Can't Let Go

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.”

Pain Pleasure Setting Settings Immunity

Book:The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

“I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.”

Home Setting Settings Dimensions Always Believe Infusion

Author:Michael Graves

“I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.”

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”

Ifs Way Giving Today Turns Known Lord Blessing Following Setting Command Settings Curse

Author:Moses

“O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the very stones of the wall; and say what thou wilt, either by setting before them alluring promises or dreadful threatenings, yet people are hardened against both, none relenting for what they have done, or concerned about it.”

People Heart Done Wall Promise Concerned Stones Corners Setting Settings Threatening Hardened Hardness Alluring Unconcerned Hardness Of Heart

Book:The Distinguishing Characters of True Believers: In Relation To, I. God in Christ, ... XI. Their Entering Into Rest in Christ. ... To which is Prefixed, a Soliloquy on the Art of Man-fishing. Now First Published from the Manuscripts of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, ...

Source: The Distinguishing Characters of True Believers: In Relation To, I. God in Christ, ... XI. Their Entering Into Rest in Christ. ... To which is Prefixed, a Soliloquy on the Art of Man-fishing. Now First Published from the Manuscripts of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, ...

“God’s plan for you, whether you’re married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God’s way.”

Way Giving Hard Plans Hard Work Communication Married Commitment Warm Boundaries Setting Settings Being Married God's Plan Singleness Open Communication

Author:Chip Ingram

“Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, you'll be under his spell. His characters are living, breathing people you'll care about; his setting is a place you'll visit and stay-long after you've decided to leave because you're scared. You can't leave; you're trapped. There are too many nerve-jangling, beautifully written, razor sharp moments and you won't want to miss a single one. This is an absolute sizzler.”

People Want Firsts Long Moments Character Stories Care Wish Written Missing Decided Absolutes Scared Sentences Setting Settings Fantastic Breathing Nerves Spells Trapped Compelling Razors

Author:Lisa Unger

“Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep of the sky, the panorama of the great valley. The beauty drives you out of the self for a moment - so that for this time, the self is not.”

Self Moments Motivational Magic Sky Mountain Sight Lays Setting Settings Valleys Sheer Breathtaking Panorama

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“The best passing drill is pass - set - hit. The best setting drill is pass - set - hit. The best hitting drill is pass - set - hit... Anything less than a game situation, unless very well planned, has the possibility of introducing artificial situations, and complete transfer to the game might not occur when drills are constructed in this manner.”

Wells Might Games Situation Possibility Setting Passing Passings Settings Artificial Introducing Hitting Transfers Drills

Author:Marv Dunphy

“Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted.”

Ifs Knows Giving Wells Mean Doe Has Beens Stills Book Done Stories Use Written Materials Authority Pages Foundation Planning Invisible Setting Settings

Author:Dorothy Bryant

“Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.”

Mean Christ Church Building Sitting Opposites Bars Setting Settings Drunk Chickens Halls Followers Pool Church Buildings

Book:Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl

Source: Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl

“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.”

Done Morning Sun Records Setting Settings Dawn Things Done Short Life Beginning Of Life Knowledge Gained

Author:John Ruskin

“Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.”

Two Late Setting Settings Too Late Toasters

Author:Sam Levenson

“Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.”

People Way Protect Setting Settings Spy

Author:Tommy Douglas

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

Virtue Fine Setting Settings Nobility Gems

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Worry is negative goal setting.”

Goal Worry Negative Setting Settings Setting Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“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.”

Mean Seems Bits Goal Determine Refuse Setting Recovery Settings Helpful Disability Living My Life Reckless I Live My Life

Author:Christopher

“Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.”

People Ifs Feels Ideas Feelings Forget Failing Design Perspective Concern Innovation Setting Settings Merit Neglect Rejected Innovative Innovative Ideas

Book:The Myths of Innovation

Source: The Myths of Innovation

“We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.”

People Want Should Country Force Goodness Standards Gun Setting Settings Barrels Emulate Armed Forces

Author:Ron Paul

“Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal”

Sometimes Seems Behinds Struggle Achievement Accidents Setting Settings Landscape Curtains Deceptive Landmarks

Author:John Berger

“If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.”

Ifs Left Talking Conflict Entrepreneur Population Setting Settings Posts

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.”

Firsts Speak Accepting Christianity Cases Fool Complaining Setting Settings Chinese Preaching Listeners Skeptic Yelling Preamble

Author:Edward Feser

“I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.”

World Character Setting Settings Scenarios Inventing

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“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.”

Thinking Trying Character Use Given Scene Impact Senses Setting Settings Describing

Author:Mercedes Lackey

“Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.”

Self Hard Rooms Style Danger Accounts Warm Setting Settings Capture Emergencies Psychiatrist Conformist Candid Emergency Room Non Conformist

Author:Tanya Luhrmann

“The truth is that we won’t receive the support we need until we ask for it. Just because we can do it all doesn’t mean we should. And when we don’t speak up about our needs, we’re asking our loved ones to read our minds—and then we resent them when they fail our test. By not being open and honest about the support we need, we’re selling ourselves short and setting our relationships up for failure.”

Needs Should Mind Mean Asks Speak Can Do Support Failing Honest Truth Is Tests Asking Setting Selling Settings Loved Ones Our Relationship Resent

Author:Jessica Ortner

“I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.”

Important Problem Courses Deals Painting Rings Setting Settings Viewers Main Course

Author:Robert Mangold

“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home”

Home Left Journey Advice Setting Settings

Author:Rumi

“Put your future in good hands. Your own.”

Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk: Inspiration and Support for Preteens from Kids Just Like Them

“By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God”

Universe Setting Settings Cosmos Archetype

Book:The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

“A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.”

Night Water Half Sun Months Moon Summer Red Rivers Thirds Spread Setting Settings Taoism Autumn Bows Pearls Dew Emeralds

Author:Bai Juyi

“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.”

Way Ends Language Ears Setting Settings Over You Caps Benches Fur Finnish

Author:Paavo Haavikko

“Goal setting is another integral part of achieving any dream. It is what takes a supernatural vision into the material realm where we can see it being accomplished.”

Dream Goal Vision Achieve Materials Setting Settings Realms Accomplished Setting Goals

Book:You The Leader

Source: You The Leader

“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.”

Way Light Running Darkness Sun West East Setting Settings Sunrise Chasing

Book:A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss

Source: A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss

“Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.”

Calm Setting Settings

Author:Hubert Van Zeller

“There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.”

Men World Certain Dies Born Example This World Weak Setting Settings Setting An Example

Author:Dan Hill

“Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”

Mind Impossible Setting Settings

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Ifs Enough Bigs Goal Setting Settings Chill

Author:Bob Proctor

“A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.”

Ideas Social Novel Creative Learning Particular Setting Settings Defined Influential Creative Ideas

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.”

“The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.”

Source: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.”

People Mean Moving Leadership Example Position Setting Settings Finding Yourself Setting An Example

Author:Lee Iacocca

“Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.”

“The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.”

Thinking Feels Mind Moments Memories Brain Perception Connections Complexes Smell Setting Settings Recognition Going To Work Odor Polling Old Memories

Author:Lewis Thomas

“As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.”

People Years Long Real Together Common Enemy Havens Ideals Setting Settings Former Mortals Classic Opponents Racing Brotherhood Crew Teammate Rowing Chatting Mortal Enemies

Author:Brad Alan Lewis

“Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.”

Faces Individual Sports Focus Cameras Setting Settings Remarkable Controlled Crew Rowing

Book:The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

Source: The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

“In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.”

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.”

Life Goal Change Fantasy Plans Achieve Pure Setting Settings Life Changing Setting Goals

Author:Stephen Covey

“The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.”

Source: Arnold