Quotes with setting

Quotes 21 till 40 of 47.

  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Tom Landry Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Greg Norman Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.
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  • Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Barton Seaver The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Jim Rohn The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ann Macbeth The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Augustus William Hare The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • George Santayana 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.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Og Mandino The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Barry Eisler There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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