In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.
I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous.
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's heartsmindssouls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.
I don't regret setting bombs.
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.
Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.
Some people are jewels in the wrong setting.
I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.
I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data lost in transmission. We have something to learn about how communication works in these settings. Sometimes it takes a really long time to communicate the full meaning of what we want to say.