Setting Quotes · Page 14

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

— Solomon Asch

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

— Corrie Ten Boom

When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

— Rickson Gracie

If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.

— Lee Iacocca

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

— Barack Obama

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

— Cary Fukunaga

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

— Stephen Covey

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

— John Darnielle

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

— Melody Beattie

Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides…

— Donalyn Miller

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we…

— Martin Luther

I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting…

— Lawrence Davidson

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died…

— John Hersey

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces…

— Olga Kurylenko

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is…

— Grant Morrison

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without…

— Adam Hamilton

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,…

— Georges Clemenceau

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key…

— Christopher Meledandri

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free…

— David Foster Wallace

You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really…

— Harrison Smith

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state…

— Richard M. Weaver

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams…

— David Foster Wallace

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing…

— Jaron Lanier

Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,…

— Bill Hicks

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every…

— Jack Canfield

The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in…

— Jennifer Phang

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

— Cheryl Richardson

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

— Maya Lin

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

— Rumi

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

— William Christopher Handy

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

— Albert Camus

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

— Eric Clapton

I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.

— Matt Lanter