Norman Macbeth Quotes
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.Norman Macbeth
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
Nadia Comaneci -
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain -
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
Walker Evans -
That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one: firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.
Jack Layton -
I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
Paddy Ashdown -
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Alan Cranston
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Alan Rickman -
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Leonard Baskin -
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.
Edward Boyden -
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
Edward Boyden -
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor -
Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.
Chuck Klosterman
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
Ken Robinson -
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.
David Jeremiah -
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
Aristotle -
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
Aristotle -
They are coming clean on how meaningless his evasive 2003 testimony was. It's now even clearer than before that the far-right activists who've been turning handsprings in celebration of Roberts's nomination are getting exactly what they wanted: a proven activist opponent of personal freedoms like a woman's right to choose.
Nancy Keenan -
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
Albert Camus
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Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
Mireille Guiliano -
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.
Galileo Galilei -
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
Chris Gardner -
Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!
Edward Barbanell -
I think the relationship between the USA and Russia is too important. And it's too important to not find a way to move forward.
Rex W. Tillerson -
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Norman Macbeth