Top 100 Quotes About Be Defined
#1. Things: your perspective or beliefs about yourself, and a quality we can call "like-ability." Like-ability can be defined as the ability to build rapport so that others listen to you. We listen to the people we like.
Andy Andrews
#2. I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.
Benjamin X. Wretlind
#3. A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Garrett Hardin
#4. You should not be defined by one bad performance.
Ashley Wagner
#5. I don't like labels. I won't be defined by words like normal, unbalanced, or damaged. There's so much more to me than words. I have layers, just like the next person, and if you picked me apart layer-by-layer, you'd find a blackened crust where my heart should be.
Belle Aurora
#6. The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
Yoshida Kenko
#7. [The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#8. Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.
Marco Rubio
#9. If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
Douglas Rushkoff
#10. Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.
Shaun McNiff
#11. We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#12. To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.
Robert Brumet
#13. I cannot be defined by what other people think.
Oprah Winfrey
#14. The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings ... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.
Albert Mackey
#15. But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined.
J.R. Ward
#16. It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.
Ani DiFranco
#17. I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").
James Houston Turner
#18. Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
#19. Influence can be defined as earning the right to be heard so that others are moved toward their best.
Like Salt shaken out influence is hard to see, but its flavor is impossible to miss
Pam Farrel
#20. I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.
Norman Cousins
#21. 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
#22. It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.
Jamie Cullum
#23. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#24. There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Alastair Campbell
#25. Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
Theodore Schroeder
#26. Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.
Ernst Mach
#27. Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
Joan Halifax
#29. I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.
Raymond Pettibon
#30. A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Bill Vaughan
#31. Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
T. Scott McLeod
#32. The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear.
Robert J. Morgan
#33. Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.
Dave McKean
#34. The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#35. Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#37. Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
Bill Courtney
#38. If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.
Steve Coogan
#39. Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.
Luvvie Ajayi
#40. Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
Viswanathan Anand
#41. That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating the terms that life deals you. When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.
Kathleen Tessaro
#42. All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.
William J. Clinton
#43. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
You are deciding your life right now.
Meg Ray
#44. You need, instead, to be defined by your values.
John Baird
#45. Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
Neil Peart
#46. Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
John Dewey
#47. Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
#48. I am not a girl that can ever be defined. I am not fly, I am levitation..I represent an entire generation!
Nicki Minaj
#49. Then at once "human nature" is again invoked to prove the necessity of change, for "human nature" has been thwarted or insulted by the dominant system. "Man" can no longer be defined as what suits the dominant system, when the dominant system apparently does not suit men. I
Paul Goodman
#50. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Edith Wharton
#52. Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Nadine Gordimer
#53. I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.
A.K. Nicholas
#54. Success can be defined as he intelligent application of failure.
June Hunt
#55. It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
Robert Hughes
#57. Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
Lajos Kossuth
#58. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
Gilles Menage
#59. The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
Ravi Zacharias
#60. The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#61. Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.
Scott Walker
#62. Success could be defined as the ability to go on persevering even when it seems that there are no possibilities left. Each failure is not truly a failure, just another possibility explored and found wanting. We never truly run out of possibilities for success, just imagination to find them.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#63. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli
#64. That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number, line, and shape can be defined without change but flesh, bone, and man cannot. They are like sbub nose, not like curved.
Aristotle.
#65. Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.
Joseph Conrad
#66. Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.
Gwen Harwood
#67. Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
Anne Sweeney
#68. Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop
#69. A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Hakim Bey
#70. I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to the next.
Justin Timberlake
#71. Don't be defined by the watch you use, the clothes you wear, and the car you drive. Be defined by your relationship with God.
Bo Sanchez
#73. Man may be defined as the animal that can say 'I,' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Erich Fromm
#74. I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.
Jane Clayson
#75. Happiness can be defined as the function of the effort we put forth toward the realization of life's goals. When we understand that our purpose in this world is to strive toward purposeful accomplishment, precisely then will we experience happiness.
H.W. Charles
#76. a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.
Holly Jacobs
#77. The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino
#78. A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
Alice Weaver Flaherty
#79. Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.
Steven Pinker
#80. To deny equality to one is to deny equality for all.
We won't find joy by misplacing our unhappiness onto others.
Love cannot be defined, assigned or mitigated.It's not something to be controlled or dictated.
Love is uncontrollable and limitless.
Tosha Michelle
#82. Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality
Kevin Swanson
#83. It is my experience that the hard numbers are the ones that lie. The matters that they describe cannot be defined so clearly. The most accurate statement that can be made on the frequency of depression is that it occurs often and, directly or indirectly, affects the lives of everyone. It
Andrew Solomon
#84. It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
#85. Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.
Melanie Fiona
#86. Success can be defined as how hard you continue to fight when they tell you that the battle is over.
Mark W. Boyer
#87. What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann
#88. The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.
Steve Coogan
#89. Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.
Sarah Kay
#90. As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Deborah Blum
#91. Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
Richard Saul Wurman
#92. A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#93. I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.
Teddy Pendergrass
#94. Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
Joseph Addison
#95. When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
Elie Wiesel
#96. What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
Henri Poincare
#97. All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
George Henry Lewes
#98. Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#99. Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
#100. I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
Cedric The Entertainer
