#setting

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#inspiration #making-a-difference #making-a-difference-in-the-world #making-changes #positive-thinking

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beauty #helping-hand #helping-others #helping-people #inner-beauty

In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#dream #goal-setting #inspiration #inspirational #life

Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer), because it's every girl's dream to meet that gorgeous hunky boss who sweeps her off her feet and takes her out of her dull routine. ↗

— Helen Brooks

#writing #dreams

In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the ritual of time) are desirable. Nature should reflect its human inhabitants, i.e., it should be the Great Good Place; for the more Eden-like it is, the greater the contradiction of murder. The country is preferable to the town, a well-to-do neighborhood (but not too well-to-do-or there will be a suspicion of ill-gotten gains) better than a slum. The corpse must shock not only because it is a corpse but also because, even for a corpse, it is shockingly out of place, as when a dog makes a mess on a drawing room carpet." (The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict, Harper's Magazine, May 1948) ↗

— W.H. Auden

#detective-stories #mysteries #setting #writing #nature

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#life #order #setting #them #things

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. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#before #blue #business #even #feminine

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#competition #deserved #doing #feel #going