Setting Quotes · Page 15

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

— Catherine Sanderson

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

— Vaclav Havel

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

— Robert Edmond Jones

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

— Ryan Reynolds

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

— Annie Baker

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

— David Knopfler

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate…

— Nancy Pearcey

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

— Tom Hooper

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted…

— A. J. Liebling

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me.…

— Mitchell Baker

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we…

— Mark Nepo

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I believe that every life , irrespective of its events and setting, holds something of unique value, which it should be possible…

— Iris Origo

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates…

— Sasha Velour

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which…

— Anne Graham Lotz

There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to…

— Kathryn Hahn

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train…

— Julia Mancuso

If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's…

— Rita Dove

I love it. I love the challenge of it, working with kids every day, setting goals for myself and the program. I…

— Jennifer Rizzotti

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what…

— H. L. Mencken

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get…

— Wayne Dyer

When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the…

— Quentin Tarantino

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except…

— James P. Comer

For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;…

— Warren Buffett

Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride…

— Paul Washer

I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of…

— M. Russell Ballard

Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax…

— Frank Howard Clark

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

— Sam Walton

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

— Omar Khayyam

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

— Mark Batterson

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

— David Bach

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

— Francie Larrieu Smith

Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.

— Kent Brantly

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

— Zach Johnson