Settings Quotes · Page 4

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

— Melody Beattie

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

— Deborah Tall

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

— Stephen Colbert

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

— Eleanor Porter

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

— Harold S. Kushner

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

— Van Day Truex

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

— Ashley Purdy

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.…

— Cassandra Clare

A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I…

— Steve Berry

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite…

— Tony Robbins

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times…

— Denis Waitley

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low…

— Greg Norman

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning…

— Larry Hurtado

If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there…

— Richard Branson

For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay…

— Jennifer Grotz

Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or…

— Kent Nerburn

Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I…

— Mitchell Baker

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.…

— Charles Lamb

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best…

— Ken Fox

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws…

— Damian Kulash

[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually…

— Jennifer Pozner

Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think…

— James Redfield

This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the…

— Fritz Todt

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal…

— Wayne Dyer

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

— Claude Monet

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

— Susan Cain

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

— Doug Larson

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

— Og Mandino

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

— David Cottrell

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

— Seth Godin