Setting Quotes

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

I don't regret setting bombs.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

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 in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

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

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.