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“Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.”

Said Courses Sea Setting Ships Settings

Book:A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators

Source: A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators

“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 8: Letters and State Papers 1782 - 1799

“Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.”

Thinking May Environment Areas Setting Psychological Settings Abundance Just One Leap

Author:Martha Beck

“We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.”

Source: Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire

“With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.”

Firsts Saws Tree Produce Cold Productions Setting Settings Sassy

Author:Bruce Beresford

“My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?”

“Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”

Goal Effort Succeed Expectations Setting Settings Each Day Exceed Specific Goals

Author:Les Brown

“Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.”

Science Chance Known Knowledge Nice Accounts Method Dues Experiments Invention Setting Settings New Work

Book:The works

Source: The works

“You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.”

Thinking Mind Might Values Choices Easy Setting Settings Shifting Will Power Stressful

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“Many couples have made commitments to sexual purity, but instead of adopting a lifestyle that supports this commitment, they continue relationships that encourage physical expression and place themselves in dangerous settings. The path you take with your feet should never contradict the conviction of your heart.”

Should Heart Made Support Path Feet Dangerous Expression Couple Commitment Conviction Lifestyle Setting Settings Purity Adopting

Book:I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

Source: I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

“Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.”

Art Path Feet Setting Settings Mastery

Author:George Leonard

“The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.”

Knows Bigs Games Answers Week Share Ten Institutions Sells Setting Familiar Settings Tickets Nobody Knows Utah

Author:Craig Thompson

“I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.”

Thinking Writing Results Fronts Produce Emotional Setting Settings Surprising Unfamiliar

Author:Ralph Keyes

“For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.”

Want Sometimes Challenges Setting Settings Description

Author:Kim Smith

“Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".”

Ifs Seems Fall Challenges Player Scene Majors Pages Mood Handle Setting Settings Flats Leap

Author:Kim Smith

“Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.”

Thinking Character Guy Overcoming Meetings Enormous Setting Settings Odds Amnesia

Author:Danny Boyle

“Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.”

Character Actors Process Understanding Term Pieces Feet Emotional Scene Setting Settings Tone Discovering Rehearsal Thorough Staging

Author:Kate Winslet

“I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.”

People Thinking Doe Helping Today Actors Setting Settings

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.”

Thinking Example Athlete Setting Settings Feminine Ballerina Armour Under Armour

Author:Misty Copeland

“You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.”

Ifs Want Fall Setting Settings Repeats

Author:Philip Roth

“Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.”

Writing Trying Character Audience Fit Setting Settings Target Target Audience

Author:Alex Borstein

“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!”

“I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.”

People Stills Real Character Actors Situation Streets Walking Easier Setting Settings Extras Artificial Location Real Street

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.”

People Ifs Guy Water Land Hundred Wave Setting Settings Beach Frustration Frustrated

Author:Laird Hamilton

“Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.”

“If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Ideas Seems Achieve Stage Pages Setting Settings

Author:Don DeLillo

“Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.”

Different Stories Home Certain Girl Amount Setting Settings Decorum

Author:Stana Katic

“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.”

Ifs Mean Doe Stills Moving Humanity Realizing Position Particular Moved Setting Settings Blast Harlem

Author:Rita Dove

“And that's just a terrifying and terrifying thing. And all the photographers and, you know, it's a different, unnatural setting that no one can prepare you for. But, you know, I just try and have as much fun as I can for as long as it lasts because I know it's a privilege.”

Knows Trying Long I Can Different Lasts Fun Photographer Privilege Setting Settings Unnatural

Author:Debra Messing

“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

“Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.”

Humans Doe Earth Together Heaven Race Democracy Gratitude Civilization Setting Settings Human Race Reverence Preparing Linked Commonality

Author:Vaclav Havel

“But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.”

May Seems Wind Woods East Drawing Setting Settings Withering

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.”

Should Ideas Rivers Setting Settings Mathematical

Author:James Joseph Sylvester

“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Humans Body Order Human Beings Issues Focus Gender Setting Settings Narrative Indispensable Symmetry Highlighting

Author:Alante Kavaite

“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.”

People Thinking Feels Might Jobs Social Party Judgment Setting Settings Worried Interviews Introvert Preference Think Of You Shyness Job Interview

Author:Jonathan Cain

“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”

“It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having fun. Most film festivals are really low-stress, and good times to hang out with buddies and talk about what you're working on and come up with new ideas.”

People Ideas Film Fun Lows Stress Come Up Setting Settings Having Fun Good Times Hanging Out New Ideas Festivals Buddy Film Festivals

Author:Joe Swanberg

“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

“Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.”

Ends Setting Settings Helpful Awkward Spectrum

Author:Mitchell Baker

“Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Said Ideas Happens Turns Speak Know How Blue Tables Setting Settings Awkward

Author:Mitchell Baker

“I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.”

Thinking Men Years Levels Common Too Much Groups Advice Comfort Comfortable Setting Settings

Author:Mitchell Baker

“I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already managed to remain at the helm for 18 years. I still want to achieve a great many things for my country. Experience is not a disadvantage here, especially as the head of government of a small country in a European setting that has become more difficult.”

Want Years Stills Country Government Difficult Known Achieve Politician Setting Settings Great Men Nevertheless Disadvantages Helm Small Countries

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.”

Talking Comedy Stage Acceptance Mere Setting Settings Lenses Primal

Author:Ted Alexandro

“One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.”

Way Littles Whole Church Distance Track Radio Setting Settings Bells Birdsong Church Bells

Author:Peter Blegvad

“When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist, that's all I want. Well, I attained that. I'm an obscure cult artist, and I think now, Why didn't I say I want to be another Picasso or something? What other options were open to me? But I was convinced I couldn't achieve great things because I don't have a steady-state mind.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Mind Wells Said I Can States Artist Achieve Produce Convinced Setting Great Things Settings Steady Obscure Cult

Author:Jim Woodring

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”

Found Tables Setting Settings Kitchen Halls Parliament Chamber Academia Kitchen Table

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.”

Trying Expectations Setting Settings Exhaustion Junkie

Author:Stephen Colbert

“When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.”

Love Is Situation Failing Fit Solutions Size Setting Settings Encounters One Size Fits All Love Never Fails

Author:Joo

“A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.”

Looks Soul Done Prayer Pleasure Lord Practice Garden Roots Plant Setting Settings Soil Weed Majesty Beginners

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

“Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting tension on every page. A must-read for contemporary hardboiled mystery fans who appreciate the type of terse dialogue and real life conflicts and settings Elmore Leonard so richly brought to life.”

Real Character Mystery Fans Type Conflict Pages Appreciate Paint Real Life Setting Contemporary Dialogue Settings Tension Nails Straightforward Edgy True Life Biting Lamentation

Author:Robert Dugoni