Top 100 Quotes About Defines
#1. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
Richard Paul Evans
#2. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#3. It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART
K. Farrell St. Germain
#4. That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I
Trevor Noah
#5. because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life - perhaps it is life.
Tillie Cole
#6. What defines me? Skin? I hope I'm more than that. Than this. That I am what I think, what I believe. What I feel.
Lissa Price
#7. Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
Pranab Mukherjee
#8. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.
Francis Chan
#9. The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
Arlene J. Chai
#10. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#11. Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.
Jordan Christy
#12. Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.
Elias James Corey
#13. Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again
Seth Godin
#14. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.
Lisa Graff
#16. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.
Kenny Loggins
#17. Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.
Nadege Richards
#18. You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
Marc Maron
#19. It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot
Ron Paul
#20. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.
Jocelyn Murray
#21. Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#22. A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Dean Kamen
#23. What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?
Erica Crouch
#24. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
#25. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
Nikki Rowe
#26. Some mistakes ... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
Jojo Moyes
#27. That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.
Terry Goodkind
#28. It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle
#29. Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.
Lucrecia Martel
#30. What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.
Shahid Kapoor
#31. So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#32. One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Omar Ahmad
#33. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
Francesca Martinez
#34. I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Zadie Smith
#35. What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.
Ashlee Simpson
#36. Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Todd Akin
#37. Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
R. R. Reno
#38. I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.
Jojo Moyes
#39. For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
Davis Bunn
#40. Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you?
Kasie West
#41. It's not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.
David S.Goyer
#42. Fans will try and make Jesus one of many. Some fans may even make Jesus the first of many. But when Jesus defines the relationship he makes it clear; he wants to be your one and only.
Kyle Idleman
#43. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.
Bill Gates
#44. Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences ... defines us.
Kat Bastion
#45. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.
Jay Crownover
#46. Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Renata Adler
#47. Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
James Altucher
#48. The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
Richard Dawkins
#49. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#51. Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.
John Dowland
#52. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.
Jared Leto
#53. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling
Bob Hoskins
#54. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
Daniel Quinn
#55. It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
Leon Redbone
#56. You don't have a monopoly on pain or loss. It's a level playing field - we all lose - we all grieve. It's what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It's self-inflicted torture.
R.W. Patterson
#57. That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
G. Willow Wilson
#59. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#60. Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#61. The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.
Robert Kiyosaki
#62. A monologue defines its author as reliably as his fingerprints.
Marcelo Figueras
#63. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner
#64. Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
#65. Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.
Eric Ries
#66. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA
Guillermo Del Toro
#67. The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
Tom Hollander
#68. I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
Mira Nair
#69. She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.
Gillian Flynn
#70. Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#71. Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.
Damon Galgut
#72. Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
Paul David Tripp
#73. It's okay to make mistakes. It's how you fix them that defines you.
Ava Harrison
#74. Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
Camille Paglia
#75. Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner
#77. My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I pause, wondering how Demos defines infiltration.
'Not that way', Alicia answers.
Sarah Alderson
#78. You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Meghan Daum
#79. Taste is an evolution and refinement of one's personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.
Norma Kamali
#81. Adjusting herself, she doesn't feel any different. Not really. And now what? Is she supposed to go back to Ben? Are they going to do it again? Was she good? Was he good? Who defines 'good' anyway? Is he going to tell everyone? What will he tell them?
Ann Benjamin
#82. Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.
Pat Murphy
#83. It is not who you are underneath; it is what you do that defines you
David S.Goyer
#84. But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.
Rick Yancey
#85. Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
Angela Merkel
#87. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.
Robert Polidori
#88. We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#89. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#91. This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.
Michael W. Goheen
#92. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Dale Ludwig
#93. Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
Bill Gates
#94. A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
Jason Sudeikis
#95. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Jane Austen
#96. It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
Christian Bale
#97. Music can act as an invisible uniting force that claims the unclaimed and defines the outcasts of a culture.
Bob Boilen
#98. In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.
Michel Foucault
#100. What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
Bill Cosby
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