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Setting goals is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goals are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
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It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
Valentino Rossi
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There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.
Harry Crews
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Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.
Shunryu Suzuki
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If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.
Lance B. Wickman
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At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.
Barry Goldwater
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I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!
Cassandra Clare
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Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Les Brown
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
Bill Gates
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Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.
Richard Branson
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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
Freya Stark
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Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.
Donalyn Miller
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I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
Stephen R. Donaldson
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Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
Susan Minot
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If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.
Karin Tidbeck
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.
Joel Dicker
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
John Muir
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Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Joe Biden
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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
Robert Bly
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If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
Don DeLillo
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Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.
danah boyd
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