Top 100 Definitions Of Quotes
#1. What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
Jon Foreman
#2. To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.
David Abram
#3. Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.
Shelby Harris
#4. If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#5. I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.
Rachel Cusk
#7. Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
Ishmael Reed
#8. The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.
Robert Bridges
#9. Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
Jose Saramago
#10. Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.
Kenneth Turan
#12. There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.
Andrew Neel
#13. We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.
I. A. Richards
#14. Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
Andre Breton
#15. A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic ... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
Daniel Kahneman
#16. I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.
Vance Gilbert
#17. Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
Andre Ward
#18. I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic ... (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.
Herbert Croly
#19. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#20. Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
#21. For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.
Edwin Catmull
#22. All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#23. My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
Whitney Cummings
#24. This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
Terry Pratchett
#25. The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
#26. The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.
Hugh Jackman
#27. When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#28. She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved - a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn't think of it. It wasn't in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.
Olivia Sudjic
#29. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
Gina McKee
#31. The mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.
Hans Reichenbach
#32. No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
Walter Bagehot
#34. We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
Anita Roddick
#35. My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
John Spence
#36. This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will ...
Benjamin Tucker
#37. Fine has many definitions, and not one of them means everything is okay.
Cindy Skaggs
#38. Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all ... You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80
talking about marriage and husbands
Elizabeth Berg
#39. I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk. Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#40. One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.
Herbert Marcuse
#41. I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.
Daniel Tosh
#42. I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
William Stafford
#43. All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.
Bryant McGill
#44. The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.
Thomas Berry
#46. Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.
Joe Lieberman
#47. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. You don't get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad ... it's incumbent upon you, if you're going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
Mark Rippetoe
#49. Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
Evan Esar
#50. I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuth
#51. My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.
Lamar Hunt
#52. One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.
Eric Schmidt
#53. Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.
Donella Meadows
#54. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Penitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.
Idries Shah
#56. Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
Ernst Mayr
#58. It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk
#59. And I found there were myriad definitions of this thing called tragedy that had wormed its way through the history of literature; and the simplest of all was this: that it is the story of a figure who, through some moral flaw or personal failing, falls through force of circumstance to his doom.
Helen Macdonald
#60. 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
#61. That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
Tod Machover
#62. I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
Frederick Lenz
#63. The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.
Neil Postman
#64. The only problem is that it's difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine. Even the best books on the subject are limited." She'd
Genevieve Cogman
#65. What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Donald C. Peattie
#66. Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
Jacqueline Briskin
#67. Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [ ... ]
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
Samuel Johnson
#68. My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.
Jose Mujica
#69. What is your personal definition of "good"?
A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.
Bill Drayton
#70. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond De Goncourt
#71. What's the definition of a good flame? One you agree with ...
Karl Lehenbauer
#72. If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.
Narendra Modi
#73. The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.
George Carlin
#74. I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.
George McGovern
#75. I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
Robert Delaunay
#76. That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
E.C. Bentley
#77. To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Sharon Gannon
#78. The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
Jon Meacham
#79. The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
Timothy Keller
#80. While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.
Albert Einstein
#81. George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon provides one of the simplest definitions of curiosity: the feeling of deprivation that comes from an information gap between what we know and what we want to know. Separately,
Philip Kotler
#82. The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first
William J. Bernstein
#83. If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
Seth Godin
#86. The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
Esther Dyson
#87. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Baldwin
#88. Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell.23
Alberto Manguel
#89. My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.
Kinky Friedman
#90. With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.
Jay Leno
#91. These are society's definitions of poverty and wealth: To be poor is to have less and to be rich is to have more. Under these definitions, we are always poor, always covetous, always dissatisfied, no matter the size of our salary, or how comfortable we are, or if our needs are in fact fulfilled.
Ken Ilgunas
#92. 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
#93. One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
#94. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
Fernando J. Corbato
#95. A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.
Anuj
#96. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
Ray Kroc
#98. 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
#99. A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
Neil Postman
#100. My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.
Jimmy Kimmel
