Top 218 Settings Quotes & Sayings

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Roblox provides a world where kids can get together and socialize in hundreds of different settings.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

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.

Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.

Marriage doesn't guarantee anything, it doesn't come with perfect settings.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Reducing MRSA infections is critical because these bacteria are difficult to treat and are common in healthcare settings, especially among ICU (intensive care unit) patients.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.

I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

I have two settings: full speed and stop.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

I'm an academic. I did my PhD in fluid dynamics and now I work at the University College London in an interdisciplinary department looking at patterns of human behaviour in urban settings.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is. I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There's no sense of purpose.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

I encountered on a regular basis rude comments and sexual innuendo and cat calls and overt sexual propositions in professional settings.

I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.

My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the settings in my stories are Indian - but also in terms of characters and plot. I think growing up in India grew my imagination in certain ways that would not have happened in any other place. I'm also fascinated by the idea of India, and writing stories allows me to explore this. As for thematic elements, they are probably pretty obvious in my stories. I also hope that my stories bust stereotypes at least to a modest extent.

The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

Stun settings are for people who can't commit.

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.

Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.

I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.