Definition Of Quotes

#1. He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Michael Lewis

#2. To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Vince Lombardi

#3. A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Anita Roddick

#4. What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Leonard Sweet

#5. A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

Anuj

#6. A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

James E. Myers

#7. The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.

Robert Rolih

#8. Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

Ana Patrick

#9. That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.

Robert Downs

#10. Jesus, as the one perfect person who fully embodied what it meant to be human and is the new Adam, is the definition of what it means to be a man. Everything else is false.

Nate Pyle

#11. [T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.

Tina Fey

#12. Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

Leo Buscaglia

#13. The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Ray Kroc

#14. My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

DeVon Franklin

#15. We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Fatih Birol

#16. That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

Frederick C. Beiser

#17. For all my life," he said, "when someone has said the word 'beautiful', it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa Gray.

Cassandra Clare

#18. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Jodie Foster

#19. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

#20. If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays ...

Glenn Reynolds

#21. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Richard Bachman

#22. Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.

Fernando Pessoa

#23. Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.

Chris Anderson

#24. The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

Stephen Harper

#25. We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it ... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

Rose Bird

#26. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

William Barclay

#27. The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan

#28. You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan W. Watts

#29. My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

Jimmy Kimmel

#30. What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#31. NASA 'working definition' of life, for example: life is 'a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution'.

Nick Lane

#32. Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#33. Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Beaumont Newhall

#34. Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Milan Kundera

#35. A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Joseph Campbell

#36. Proving he's a crazy son of a bitch, Pigpen flashes me that guilty-by-definition-of-insanity grin. "See, was talking so bad? A few weeks with me and you'll be ready for full-on family therapy.

Katie McGarry

#37. Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Joyce Meyer

#38. My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

#39. Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his followers to have the faith of a child (Mark 10:15). But I once heard Francis Schaeffer respond by saying, "Don't you realize how many questions children ask?"

Nancy Pearcey

#40. Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

Mike Duncan

#41. Extroverts are not superior to introverts, and vice versa. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in.

Michaela Chung

#42. Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#43. Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good and evil is that it is both objective and universally acceptable.

Gregory David Roberts

#44. If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Buzz Aldrin

#45. To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Alfred Adler

#46. That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

John Landgraf

#47. Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#48. Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.

Paul Ryan

#49. I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

Alan Ball

#50. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

Fernando J. Corbato

#51. The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them.

Elizabeth S. Anderson

#52. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Peter F. Drucker

#53. That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.

Rachel Caine

#54. As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

Kerry Washington

#55. Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant,
superbly contemptuous of all that is not
itself, and, as they very definition of passion
implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might
intimidiating power. It contains a challenge.
It contains an unspeakable hope.

James Baldwin

#56. Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Melissa Bank

#57. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author

George Washington

#58. As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

John F. Kennedy

#59. There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

Ron Paul

#60. My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

Clayton Cramer

#61. My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

David First

#62. There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Philip Hammond

#63. Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.

Andrew S. Grove

#64. Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.

David Deida

#65. Definition of my alcoholism One was too many and twenty was not enough.

Johnny Mack

#66. The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

George H. W. Bush

#67. My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind.

Scott Adams

#68. Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Charles R. Swindoll

#69. The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

#70. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peter Drucker

#71. There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

Paul Begala

#72. The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Thomas Jefferson

#73. We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Ben Okri

#74. Once the door closed, Tod turned to me. "Girlie, he is fine. He's fine times twelve. He's the new definition of fine." "I've been in love with him since I was five," I told Tod. "I'm in love with him now. I want to have his children," Tod told me.

Kristen Ashley

#75. No practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
-Lord Havelock Vetinari-

Terry Pratchett

#76. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Paula Scher

#77. Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#78. The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#79. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.

Walter Cronkite

#80. It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Martin

#81. Maybe your definition of hardship is different than mine, but it makes mine no less real.

Mysti Parker

#82. The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago ...

Thomas Hoving

#83. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Catharine MacKinnon

#84. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

Randy Johnson

#85. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jenna Jameson

#86. Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Dave Freudenthal

#87. The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

Rachel Bloom

#88. Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Arthur C. Clarke

#89. The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

Gloria Feldt

#90. The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Albert Einstein

#91. There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

Jon Rappoport

#92. Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you.

M. Scott Peck

#93. Susannah realized, with dawning bitterness, that she could now give the perfect definition of a ka-mai: one who has been given hope but no choices. Like giving a motorcycle to a blindman, she thought. Richard

Stephen King

#94. Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Pete Seeger

#95. But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.

Tim Worstall

#96. There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

Mike Bickle

#97. But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#98. In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Alan Perlis

#99. That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

Tod Machover

#100. An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

Nick Hornby