Top 16 Definitional Quotes
#1. As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance.
Tom DeMarco
#2. CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.
Robert Haugen
#3. If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.
Steven R. McQueen
#4. I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.
Scott Speedman
#5. One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
Pema Chodron
#6. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#7. I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
Tanith Lee
#8. Oh my dear fellow ... should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?
Oscar Wilde
#9. Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.
Amanda Hudson
#10. It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.
Betty Dodson
#11. I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#12. Black Is The Most Beautiful colour because it does not reflect it absorbs all into itself.
Amit Abraham
#14. There are too many people for this town. - China, about Roarhaven
Derek Landy
#15. For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#16. Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.
Gregory David Roberts