Settings Quotes · Page 9

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

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

— Lee Iacocca

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

— Michael Patrick Walker

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

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use…

— Sefi Atta

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of…

— Bai Juyi

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working…

— Wilferd Peterson

If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states,…

— William Walker Atkinson

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about…

— Nancy Pelosi

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local…

— Tariq Ali

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the…

— Lee Child

Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing…

— George R. R. Martin

Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person…

— Mariel Zagunis

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change.…

— Jim Clemmer

Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that…

— Sue Thoele

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it.…

— Charles de Lint

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That…

— Cate Marvin

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

— Georges Clemenceau

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to…

— William Shakespeare

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

— John Darnielle

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

— Joseph Epstein

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

— Cheryl Richardson

There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.

— Don Shula

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

— Rumi

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

— Alessandro Volta

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

— Albert Camus

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

— Alexei Sayle

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

— Robert Frost

My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

— Johanna Braddy

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

— Denis Waitley

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

— Thomas Carlyle

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

— Hubert Van Zeller