#setting

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#adversity #doing #get #goals #how

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale before a splendour in the east, and the advent of the dawn declared itself in the newborn blue of heaven. Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as in our tempestuous life the transitory wreaths of sleep brook upon a pain-racked soul, causing it to forget its sorrow. From the east to the west sped those angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light from breast and wing. On they sped out of the darkness, perfect, glorious; on, over the quiet sea, over the low coast-line, and the swamps beyond, and the mountains above them; over those who slept in peace and those who woke in sorrow; over the evil and the good; over the living and the dead; over the wide world and all that breathes or as breathed thereon. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#dusk #heavens #horizon #life #mist

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#setting-trends #social-behavior #behavior

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#character #describing #everything #given #i

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#fire #old-timer #remember #remember when #setting

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#does #explicit #field #himself #inhabit

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. ↗

— Michelangelo

#aim #danger #falling #greater #high

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. ↗

— Patty Murray

#bar #birth #birth control #control #fda

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

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. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#causes #charitable #children #doing #doing good