Defining Quotes
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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
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Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.
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I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot
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To guarantee success, spend 95% of your time defining the problem and 5% of the time solving it.
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We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.
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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.
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I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.
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The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?
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There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
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Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.
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Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.
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Oh, I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to put any stock in that. I can't put stock in that yet. ... If he doesn't do it the right way, and that's going to be the defining mode of this football team, we won't miss a beat. He says the right things to me, but I see better than I hear.
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That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
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Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
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…it is no longer useful to…keep defining and elaborating our understandings of the exact nature of racism, sexism, class and sexual orientation as if they ever operated in isolation.
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Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
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But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.
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Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.
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I'm really grateful for every opportunity I have received because each job has opened new doors to levels that wouldn't have been possible without the previous one. So in that sense, every job has been career defining.
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Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
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Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
