Setting Quotes

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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves… — Clifford Geertz
It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be… — Barack Obama
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps… — Jason Mraz
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge… — Ernst Stuhlinger
Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts. — Dizzy Dean
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 the other. — John C. Maxwell
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to… — A A Milne
A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How… — Charles Spurgeon
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But… — Dorothy Day
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. — Richard Branson
I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes… — Steve Ballmer
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,… — William O. Douglas
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which… — Byron White
The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with… — Warren E. Burger
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks… — Brian Tracy
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live… — Brian Tracy
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
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

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