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«The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away»
Author: Fisher Ames | Keywords: eggs, hen, hens, persists, setting
«Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.»
Author: Greg Norman | Keywords: setting, trick
«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.»
«Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.»
«Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.»
«The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.»
«The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.»
«Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.»
«The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.»
«Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results»

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