Top 100 Can Define Quotes
#1. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Alyson Noel
#3. Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.
David Livermore
#5. It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Vera Farmiga
#6. No matter what you have gone through in your youth,
it is about who you choose to be in life.
You can define your own destiny.
You can be stronger than a very difficult past
and overcome it.
Angelina Jolie
#7. Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.
Pearl Zhu
#8. Love is individual to each person and I don't think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn't going to be the same for everybody.
Zooey Deschanel
#9. At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you've missed the point.
John Peel
#10. When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.
Paul Henderson
#11. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
Donella Meadows
#12. I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.
Laverne Cox
#13. The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506)
Nalini Singh
#14. Taking into account the different approaches to defining the term 'missionary' we can define a missionary as a Christian believer who takes the gospel to those who have never heard it before.
Marius Olivier
#15. When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved ... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
Robert Crumb
#16. I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
James Tate
#17. It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
#18. A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
Kenneth Tynan
#19. That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.
James McAvoy
#20. No one on this earth can define 'MY' potential, I
believe it is LIMITLESS...Now my endeavor is to continually UNLIMIT
myself !!!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#21. No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
Anna Neagle
#22. You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a storyline or a character moment that we can play out. The more experience you've had, the more beneficial it is, period.
Barry Levinson
#23. Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
Nina Easton
#24. This man, he is the air I breathe. I can define it I think. It's like my lungs hold their breath each time were apart and deflate when I first see him again. I believe the term is even a breath of fresh air. I can't breathe without him.-Tainted Book 2 Fey Court Trilogy
Cyndi Goodgame
#25. Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.
Yukio Mishima
#26. I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
Mia Kirshner
#27. Because not all weakness has to be weakness. Weakness, strength, power, failure - they're just words, and we can define what the words mean if we have the will or the courage.
Michelle Sagara
#28. For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk about, things that I can define. I don't try to talk about things just because they might be a popular subject. I talk about things I know about.
Martin Lawrence
#29. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient- they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot provide courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy
#30. None can define success or failure as everyone has his own.
Chandrashekar
#32. Love is everything. Nothing else but love can define the destiny of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka
#35. It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
Paloma Faith
#36. Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.
Fernando Pessoa
#37. Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.
Charles Bronfman
#38. I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.
Albert Brooks
#39. Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#41. Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Guru Nanak
#42. Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I don't think a man can define you. You have to own that.
Jessica Simpson
#43. We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
Sheryl Crow
#44. Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
John Patrick Shanley
#45. In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me.
Ron Clarke
#46. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.
Mary Hatwood Futrell
#47. People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
David Levithan
#48. Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.
Ashish Patel
#49. We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#50. The word purebred is something we can define by counting generations back in dog-sex land. But it is not an indication of species or anything special, really.
Bill Nye
#51. I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
Albert Einstein
#52. Believe you can define your life and yourself as so much more than any ceiling you were born under.
Elaina Marie
#53. Only pain can define the meaning of tears.
Munia Khan
#54. Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
Ed Robertson
#55. I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing's sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.
Daya Kudari
#56. You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.
Kellan Lutz
#57. You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
Lemn Sissay
#59. Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.
Arjun Rampal
#61. I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
Robert Scoble
#62. Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
Roger Caras
#64. An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.
Pat Conroy
#65. You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
Seth Godin
#66. If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.
Michael Sheen
#67. Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Garrett Fort
#68. There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.
Nancy Young
#69. In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.
Michael Dummett
#71. You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
E.F. Schumacher
#72. I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.
Nick Jonas
#73. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
#74. Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
Steve Tibbetts
#77. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.
Tamera Alexander
#78. We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.
Marcia Conner
#79. Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.
Julie Kagawa
#80. God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
John Shelby Spong
#81. Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.
Lauren Oliver
#82. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
Robin Hobb
#83. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
R.J. Palacio
#84. I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.
Demi Lovato
#85. The most important time in history is - NOW - the present,
So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.
Talib Kweli
#86. The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.
Kevin Fuller
#87. I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.
James Marsters
#88. Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway.
James Monaco
#89. Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.
Penny Pritzker
#90. We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers ... one saying to the other: you don't know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?
Richard Feynman
#91. There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.
Jane Goodall
#92. You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
#93. How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
Vanna Bonta
#94. Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.
Rachel Gibson
#95. Now, you've been dealt some tough blows along the way, but those trials don't define you. You can't let them hold you back from getting out there and living.
Melissa Brayden
#96. Do you see what I mean now? We can be anything we want to each other. I'm not scared to admit who I'm interested in, or ashamed to have feelings for anyone, but I'm desperate to define them either. (Victor)
Jay Bell
#97. One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they shouldn't define you. #
Celso Cukierkorn
#98. I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.
Noah Feldman
#99. It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#100. For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
Wallace Shawn
