Quotes About Being Defined By Others

#1. Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be
or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

James A. Baldwin

#2. Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carol Moseley Braun

#3. I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

John Diamond

#4. Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

Shirin Neshat

#5. When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.

Howie Long

#6. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Fannie Flagg

#7. Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

Walter Brueggemann

#8. Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Andrew Pyper

#9. I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who simply couldn't accept the fact that I was doing something that they perceived as being a radical departure from Avenue Q.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

#10. You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A.S. Byatt

#11. When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?

Michaela Haze

#12. Potency is defined as a hidden opportunity, ability, strength, being able to display itself in certain conditions

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#13. If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image ... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Evangeline Lilly

#14. In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.

Michel Faber

#15. We are not defined by our past but are rather being prepared by our past.

Rick Martinez

#16. The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Robert Musil

#17. I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Anita Roddick

#18. young IT manager defined being the boss as developing people around him who would then rely upon him for his advice and expertise in correcting their weaknesses.

Fred Luthans

#19. R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It

Douglas Adams

#20. To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but "affirm" other people's way of life or even "celebrate" diversity in general. Like other demands for "sensitivity," this demand offers no reason - unless fear of being disapproved, denounced, or harassed is a reason.

Thomas Sowell

#21. There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

Frederick Lenz

#22. Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Serena Williams

#23. Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

#24. Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#25. I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Ayad Akhtar

#26. The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things ... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

Shelby Foote

#27. I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.

Geoff Dyer

#28. Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Jonathan Franzen

#29. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Kanye West

#30. The word deadline is defined as "a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot." I

Gary Reilly

#31. Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Jane Taylor

#32. The entire notion of being defined by the crap you bring into your minds, bodies and souls, rather than what you produce with your mind, body and soul is a glaring offense to everything we are here to do on this beautiful blue ball of a planet.

Michael Tallon

#33. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

Eckhart Tolle

#34. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

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