Definitions Quotes

• We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

  

  Catherine Bertini
  • Food
  • Mean
  • Nutrition

• One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Growing
  • Century
  • Machines

• Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Clothes
  • Figures
  • Obvious

• A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Education
  • Training
  • Devoted

• People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?

  

  Charlene Li
  • Enjoy
  • Definitions

• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Children
  • Modern
  • Generations

• I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • People
  • Mean
  • Audience

• Definition is the death of discovery.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Discovery
  • Definitions

• When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Thinking
  • Remains
  • Definitions

• I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Definitions

• The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Definitions
  • Decent

• ...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Soul
  • Definitions

• Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Honor
  • Definitions
  • Outrageous

• If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ridiculous
  • Conclusion
  • Mathematical

• Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Knowledge
  • Grows
  • Concepts

• Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Simple
  • Results
  • Inspire

• If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Success
  • Said
  • Funeral

• We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Serious
  • Identity
  • Cards

• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Feels

• I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Kind
  • Definitions
  • Add

• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Principles
  • Experiments

• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Tests
  • Definitions

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