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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." - Seth Godin
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured. Neil Gaiman
That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high pyramids And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll either rend it with my nails to nought, Or mount the top with my aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell. Christopher Marlowe
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses
George A. Moore quote: "Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does..."
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. George A. Moore
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed! Marvin Minsky
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. Michelangelo
Aldous Huxley quote: "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget..."
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
Ralph Fiennes quote: "The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant...."
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second. Ralph Fiennes
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set. Rahm Emanuel
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. Helen Dunmore
For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. Jean Dujardin
Hugh Downs quote: "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of..."
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay. Dana Delany
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses. Jackie DeShannon

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