If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win?
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!
'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.
Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
