Definitions Quotes
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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.
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We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.
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Definition is the death of discovery.
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
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I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.
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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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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.
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Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary. Mean Winning Perception Trying Problem Accepting Situation Relative Definitions Issues May Rejects Ifs Naive Small Wins
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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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.
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I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
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The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.
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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.
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...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
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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.
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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.
