Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who… — Carlos E. Asay Copy Share Image
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I… — Paul Nicklen Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We… — Gerald of Wales Copy Share Image
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world… — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team. — Dara Torres Copy Share Image
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that… — Stewart Jackson Copy Share Image
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've… — Dan Wheldon Copy Share Image
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions,… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
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