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“In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.”

Ideas Real Values Names Community Principles Honest Fairs My Family Relation Setting Golden Settings Making Money Intimate Serving Upbringing Binding Golden Rule Serving The Community

Author:James Cash Penney

“It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.”

Men May Mean Moments Law Values Lines Taken Fate Divine Duty Ambition Obstacles Setting Settings Luxury Contentment Conformity Avarice Greatest Obstacles Divine Will Resigning

Author:Seneca the Younger

“My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.”

Ifs Feels Eye Lines Pure Ocean My Favorite Setting Settings Bliss Hotel Floating Bali Overlooking Villa Pure Bliss

Author:Carolyn Murphy

“The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'”

World Way Giving May Hard Used Values Force Effort Sacrifice Hard Work Planning Setting Traditional Settings Our Family Subtle Assault Family Values Best Effort Traditional Family

Author:David O. McKay

“We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.”

Humanity Common Race Crime Bases Committed Setting Settings Oppressed Oppressors Dividing Insulted Crimes Against Humanity Common Humanity

Book:Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

“We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.”

Needs Trying Risk Security Average Setting Settings Concentrating Parameters Tsa

Author:John Mica

“Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.”

War Past Spiritual Nations Christ Situation Stage Example Setting Settings Civil War Reconciliation Revival

Author:Billy Graham

“I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

Thinking Knows Men Existence Forever Patient Reactions Setting Settings Meaningless Nothingness Dissociation Meaninglessness Meaningless Life Nullification

Author:Carl Jung

“Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.”

Thinking World Way Mean Levels Accepting Class Humility Keys Skills Ego Setting Settings My Way Multiple Way Of Thinking Therapists Superb World Class Technical Skills

Author:David D. Burns

“I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.”

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

Might Groups Hollywood Towns Independent Stranger Setting Settings Genre Cinema Native Outsiders Inaction Eccentric Genre Is

Author:Philip French

“As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.”

Trying Long Past Secret Conscience Sorry Setting Settings Ease Repeats

Author:Andy Stanley

“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Important Different Real Stories Common Sun Written Subjects Kings Walking Eternity Down And Significant Setting Settings Rising Companion Halls Palaces Eugene O Neill

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.”

May Stories Beautiful Lying Stones Tables Setting Settings Diamond Brilliance Sparkling Dazzle

Book:Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives

Source: Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives

“God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.”

Humans Spirit Can Do Poor Creatures Devil Weak Mere Setting Settings Dust Noses Ashes Scorn

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.”

Feels Mind Self Happens Love Is Acceptance Listening Appreciate Setting Settings Vulnerable Speakers Listeners Recess Listening To Others Sensing Speak Less

Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.”

Ifs Giving May Beautiful Ought Holy Lust Setting Settings Occasions Obscure

Author:Tertullian

“The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.”

Persons Real Lying Values Goal Results Achieve Rewards Setting Settings Reaching Real Value Reaching Your Goals Achieving Goals

Author:Robin Sharma

“I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different.”

Ifs Knows World Different Streets Fashion Setting Settings Shops Avoiding Billboards Fashion World

Author:Robert Montgomery

“And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a cohesive whole and doesn't alienate the audience, is tough. That's a challenge. And I think the tone of a lot of shows is discovered through experimentation and actually making it. Eventually, it starts to cohere.”

Thinking Way Whole Shows Term Challenges Audience Findings Tough Setting Settings Tone Presenting Experimentation

Author:Michael Sheen

“I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.”

People Writing Character Stories Shows Female Setting Settings Flawed

Author:Jenji Kohan

“If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.”

People Ifs Long Pay Amount Balance Raises Credit Debt Setting Cards Settings Minimum Lowest Payment Credit Card

Author:Richard Thaler

“You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"”

Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.”

People Knows Order Know How Creative Environment Setting Settings Preparation Ritual Be Creative Linked Creative People

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.”

“Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)?...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes, which is what I think any parent would do.”

Thinking Kind Parent Daughter Setting Settings

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.”

Beautiful Talent Expression Genius Setting Settings Diamond Modest Talent And Genius

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”

Men Whole Funny Together Community Worry Ears Hungry Setting Fats Settings Riot Headings Obesity Fat Man Hungry Man

Book:A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published

Source: A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published

“Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?”

Setting Horrible Settings Toasts Crisps Toasters

Author:Peter Kay

“If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.”

People Ifs Knows Running Three Talking Four Subjects Months Bases Setting Settings Good People Day To Day New Business Come Back To Me Learning Everything

Author:Richard Branson

“Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.”

Mind Firsts Effects Highest Setting Settings Ritual

Author:Eben Pagan

“In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.”

Two Real Form Three Setting Settings Combination

Author:Paco Underhill

“I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.”

People Love Is Particular Setting Settings Movie Sets

Author:Alia Shawkat

“I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested in our jobs and it keeps us coming back to work, every day. A new setting is amazing 'cause it's new for the team and it's new for our characters.”

Character Shows Jobs Actors Causes Team Setting Settings Luxury Coming Back Back To Work

Author:Aldis Hodge

“To go from Jon Favreau for Iron Man 1 and 2 to Kenneth Branagh for Thor and the very different world of Thor, it's about how to adapt to Coulson in a different setting and a different world while, at the same time, still have him be a part of the same world.”

Men World Stills Different Setting Settings Iron Different Worlds Iron Man Kenneth

Author:Clark Gregg

“The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.”

Character Together Opinion Five Figures Promise Bars Setting Hardest Settings Hardest Thing Coalitions Avengers

Author:Clark Gregg

“When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.”

Film Song Levels Numbers Keys Elements Essence Setting Settings Melody Despicable

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.”

Trying Watches Groups Fronts Setting Settings Programming Peers Laptops

Author:Tim League

“And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Hate Deals Know How Cry Singers Setting Settings Obsessed Songwriters Website Singer Songwriters

Author:Jessie J

“Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion 'does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.”

Doe Steps Policy Circumstances Speech Tragedy Clinton Setting Settings Aspiration Abortion Agendas Senators Prevention Wrong Direction Commendable

Author:Dawn Johnsen

“It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.”

Want States United Leader United States Drug Standards Patient Cancer China Setting Cures Settings Reverse Slow Down High Standards Slowing

Author:Bill Gates

“Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.”

Needs Helping Faces Quality Successful Objects Genius Ambition Independence Setting Settings Variety Merit Distinction Your Face Originality Richness Need Help

Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.”

World Way Play Character Stories Reality Would Be Fun Our Lives Harder Setting Settings Hopefully Realistic Anchors

Author:Michael Sheen

“When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.”

People Knows World Reading Groups This World Periods Setting Settings Daydreaming Time Periods Oh My Gosh

Author:Brit Marling

“What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.”

Needs Feels Games Player Elements Creating Setting Settings Enjoyable Cinematic Captivating

Author:Hideo Kojima

“I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.”

Thinking Way Mean Setting Settings Providing Obstruction

Author:J Tillman

“I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.”

Thinking Achieve Dangerous Setting Settings Aesthetic

Author:J Tillman

“There are so many types of shoes. There's so many categories, and I really have no idea what type of shoe I need at any given time. And I go in there - I find it a little bit overwhelming. 'Welcome to the shoe store! What are you looking for? Are you looking for walking shoes?' Well, uh, I'd like to have that option. Hopefully, they're adjustable. I mean, I'd like to be able to turn them up to other settings, as well.”

Needs Wells Mean Littles Ideas Able Turns Given Bits Type Walking Little Bit Shoes Stores Setting Welcome Settings Hopefully No Idea Categories Overwhelming Walking Shoes

Author:Arj Barker

“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.”

Knows Kind Bigs Kids Term Creative Fire Nice Type Quiet Mouths Setting Settings Going Out

Author:Iggy Pop