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We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

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• The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Team
  • Support
  • Vision

• Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Causes
  • Lines

• It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Decision

• I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Controlled

• This is the first time a border is opened and not controlled by the Israelis. As you can imagine this is a very important step.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Imagine
  • Step
  • Controlled

• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beginning
  • Period
  • End

• The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Controlled
  • Properly

• I thought Eugene Lawrence was unbelievable out there. He controlled everything that went on out there.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Everything
  • Controlled
  • Eugene Lawrence

• Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Soul
  • Planets
  • Corporations

• I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Environment
  • Controlled
  • Wrestler

• We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Stories
  • Defined

• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Entrepreneur
  • Seeds
  • Defined

• I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

  

  Serena Williams
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Winning

• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Stuck
  • Boxes
  • Definitions

• To feel controlled is to lose interest.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Interest
  • Lose
  • Controlled

• The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Men
  • May
  • Party

• The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Education
  • Defined
  • Aspirations

• Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Freedom
  • Math

• I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Trying
  • History

• The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

  

  Will Durant
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Old Man

• I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Dream
  • Lonely
  • Boys

• We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

  

  Adi Da
  • Controlled
  • Defined
  • Transcended