Definition Quotes
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There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
Seth Godin
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A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.
George Holyoake -
A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
Gerald Jay Sussman -
As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?
Alix Ohlin -
I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.
Benjamin Zander -
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
Bart Ehrman -
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, right? I always figure that as you experience life and things, you usually learn and pick up on things that you can do better. That's how I look at my career over time.
Michelle Carter
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
George Bernard Shaw -
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Norman Macbeth -
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari -
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.
Tori Spelling -
Home is the definition of God.
Emily Dickinson -
Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.
Susan Faludi
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price -
Go wherever God says and you will be a success. Do whatever He tells you to do and you will win. Those two simple sentences sum up the entire definition for success.
Bishop Noel Jones -
For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.
Edwin Catmull -
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
Whitney Tilson -
All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
Ed Droste
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar -
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.
Nick McDonell -
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are - they don’t get to change the definition.
Benjamin Carson