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“I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.”

“Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.”

Thinking Needs Mind Self Form Found Christ Struggle Dangerous Humility Pride Keys Terrible Assuming Strive Appearance Setting Settings Dangerous Things Exaltation Needs Of Others Abasement

Author:Paul Washer

“I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.”

Thinking Believe Looks I Believe Failing Feet Setting Settings Shooting

Author:Ashley Purdy

“We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.”

Choices Limits Everyday Setting Settings Love Everyone

Author:Mark Nepo

“I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING!”

Looks Humor Funny Order Asks House Fans Hair Setting Settings Liars Documents Lied Pins Back And Forth Saying No Lied To Me Pin Up

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!”

Writing Book Stories Novel Written Magic Type Setting Settings Realistic Short Story Writing A Book

Author:Cassandra Clare

“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Facts Pay Attention Fiction Novel Reader Moon Research Concern Blue Science Fiction Setting Settings Accurate Jupiter Blue Moon

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?”

Ifs Men Use Humor Funny Found Winning Situation Photograph Speed Setting Settings Prize Drowning Shutters Prize Winning

Author:Paul Harvey

“Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.”

Way Doe Different Shows Photography Cameras Photograph Setting Settings

Author:Lee Friedlander

“I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.”

People Trying May Real Use Bigs Happens Common Novel Events Response Real Life Setting Settings Realistic Melodrama Big Events

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.”

People Thinking Believe Different Life Is Novel Reader Towns Nostalgia Setting Settings Small Town

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.”

World Consciousness Setting Settings New World

Book:The Adding Machine

Source: The Adding Machine

“I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.”

Thinking Way Stories Reality Voice Integrity Setting Settings

Author:Danae Elon

“It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.”

Long Happens Careers Records Expectations Albums Setting Settings Long Careers

Author:Scott Weiland

“Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.”

Knows Wells Ideas Reason Imagination Particular Scene Setting Settings Visuals Urban My Imagination Time Of Day Visual Images

Author:Philip Pullman

“When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.”

Trying Wells May Doe Ideas Sometimes Government Running Situation Innovation Trade Setting Settings Flexibility Caps

Author:Stewart Brand

“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.”

“Her idea of a romantic setting is one that has a diamond in it. If you feel the need to marry a doctor, I suggest a dermatologist. Good hours, free Retin-A.”

Ifs Needs Feels Ideas Humor Funny Hours Doctors Setting Settings Diamond

Author:Rita Rudner

“Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.”

People Book Ends Levels Careers Novel Example Technique Setting Settings Metaphorical

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.”

World Believe Matter Goal Five Team Losing No Matter What Setting Settings Pounds Championship Setting Goals Championship Team

Author:Dara Torres

“I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Goal Easier Setting Settings Motivated Setting Goals Stay Motivated

Author:Dara Torres

“I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Wonderful Window Folks Neighbor Miles Setting Settings Sheep Dirt Deer Ponies Woodland Grazing Dirt Roads

Author:Raymond Buckland

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.”

Goal Setting Settings Cop Setting Goals

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.”

Thinking Years Actors Company Taught Bases Theatre Setting Settings Etc Props Scenery Mopping

Author:Robert Dessaix

“A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put their arm right on the page so you can't turn it because they're not ready to go to the next page yet. They just want to look at it again, or they want to read the book over and over because they really enjoy setting the pace themselves.”

Want Looks Book Young Turns Next Enjoy Ready Arms Reader Pages Setting Settings Pace Not Ready

Author:Jan Brett

“I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.”

People Way Writing Made Stories Use Memories Fiction Imagine Events Reader Setting Settings Narrative Bored Non Fiction

Author:Sefi Atta

“I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in another place and it is a shock to come out and consider my previous works.”

Character Language Conflict Setting Settings Shock Something New Always Working Previous Work

Author:Sefi Atta

“The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"”

Way Ends Hard Whole Stories Forget Fiction Balls Setting Dialogue Tendencies Settings Plot Wraps Fiction Writers Pacing One For Me

Author:Cate Marvin

“Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.”

Values Plans Land Taxes Property Rate Improvement Setting Settings Neighborhood Property Taxes

Author:Mark Noble

“There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.”

Ifs Feelings Goal Race Setting Settings Realistic Personal Goal Realistic Goals Personal Best

Author:Jenny Meadows

“You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.”

Needs Writing Helping Individual Goal Simple Focus Team Wall Wake Up Strive Committed Setting Settings Rugby Tick Team Goal Your Wall

Author:Filo Tiatia

“I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.”

Ifs Trying Kind Enjoy Difficult Can Do Quality Wonderful Color Type Limits Letters Machines Setting Dialogue Settings Enjoyed Limitation

Author:Dave McKean

“When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.”

Want Needs Force Fields Integrity Protect Setting Producers Settings Allowing Bubbles Force Fields

Author:Jonah Hill

“The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.”

Knows Littles Doe Important Stories Painting Like You Scene Elements Details Setting Settings Tone Describing Good Story Painting A Picture

Author:Big Boi

“In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.”

America Ill Setting Settings Prey Cocktails Hardy Mentally Ill

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.”

Kind Social Easy Community Needed Setting Dialogue Settings Persistence Revolutionary Engaged Take Time Unpredictable Social Change Messy Patience And Persistence

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.”

World Giving Desire Steps Listening Discipline Essentials Giving Up Prejudice Shoes Setting Settings Temporary Speakers Frame Of Reference

Author:M. Scott Peck

“A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.”

Moving Steps Majors India Planning Setting Settings Reform Governance Transforming

Author:Narendra Modi

“The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.”

Important Term Attitude Directors Setting Settings Tone

Author:Josh Radnor

“I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is that. So I think, at least my idea, was lets bring something again that's primitive and guttural but then let's also do something beautiful where you're outside and this isn't a typical western setting. It's lush. It's green. It's beautiful.”

Thinking Ideas Beautiful Heaven Watches Green Western Setting Settings Primitive Typical Something Beautiful Lush

Author:Josh Brolin

“I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.”

Thinking Doe Christian Leadership Church Generations Ordinary Meetings Boundaries Setting Settings Ordinary Things

Author:Francis Chan

“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.”

Pay Impossible Acceptance Despair Aim Setting Settings Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Author:Graham Greene

“God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.”

I Can Two Today Faces Reading Hours Prayer Meditation Praying Blessing Pure Enlightenment Let Me Asking Gods Will Setting Settings Get Up Refreshing

Author:Bonar Law

“Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.”

Way Made Hard Success Goal Mistake Achievement Lows Lifetime Accomplish Setting Settings Hard Times Having A Hard Time

Book:Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

Source: Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

“Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.”

People Way Inspirational Inspiration Raises Setting Settings Questionable

Author:Joe Vitale

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”

Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris

“Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”

Source: True Manliness

“Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.”