In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
If you're going to have a kid who engages in critical thinking, you're not going to shut them down when they ask a question. You're not going to settle for "because. " You're going to encourage them to ask more. And you want them to understand how other people think.
I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.
The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.
I don't settle. That's how I am.
Don't settle for less than is possible.
Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail. . . and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.
I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.
The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.