Top 100 Quotes About Defining
#1. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.
A.J. Liebling
#2. He'd meant to pray, meant to fix his thoughts on something beautiful, like the future and the new world and the woman he would be sharing it with.
But like every important, defining moment in his life, it had all roared by too fast.
Blake Crouch
#3. Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.
Paula Rothenberg
#4. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.
Richard Paul Evans
#5. Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
Katherine Dunn
#6. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller
#7. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.
Joseph Mazur
#8. Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order
William J. Brennan
#9. I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#10. The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.
Paul O'Brien
#11. At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?
Patricia Highsmith
#12. Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.
Robert A. Giacalone
#13. The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.
Andrew C. McCarthy
#14. By defining the problem as "hunger," the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
Janet Poppendieck
#15. Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
Barbra Streisand
#16. So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.
John F. Kennedy
#17. Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#18. The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Dwayne Johnson
#19. I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.
Sarah Silverman
#20. What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
Angelique Kidjo
#21. History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
Ken Burns
#22. When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Mark Batterson
#23. Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#24. We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.
Priti Patel
#25. For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.
George Reese
#26. To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
Christina Baldwin
#27. Cool is identified only by defining others as uncool. The velvet rope excludes before it invites.
Greg Gutfeld
#28. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of a superhero is a willingness to sacrifice for the good of others, even to the point of laying down his or her own life.
Rachel Hawkins
#29. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry
#30. Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
Amy Hill Hearth
#31. The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Jay Weatherill
#32. We too easily put boundaries on defining who we are.
Elaina Marie
#34. I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
Suzanne Vega
#35. There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#36. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.
Lucien Carr
#37. Most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I hear that word I get a rising in the gut as if I were about to puke. let them have the stage so long as I need not be in the audience.
Charles Bukowski
#38. I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
Andie MacDowell
#39. When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
Albert Einstein
#40. Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.
Peter Watts
#41. Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
Allie Burke
#42. A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
Mick Jones
#43. My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.
Peter Morville
#44. The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
Jonathan Ive
#45. I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.
Lisa O'Hare
#46. Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.
Michele Rosenthal
#47. Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.
Shelley K. Wall
#48. I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
Kenny Loggins
#49. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.
Theodore Dalrymple
#50. LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.
Farshad Asl
#51. Different people have different ways of defining, living and maintaining relationships. Your way is not the only right way, it is merely your way. As far as right way is concerned, there isn't any. It is all about different opinions and perceptions.
Arti Honrao
#52. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing
Paul Kalanithi
#53. What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.
R.D. Laing
#54. If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.
Bret Easton Ellis
#55. The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#56. Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
John Podhoretz
#57. The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
Walter Salles
#58. Cathy's a nice person, in a forceful sort of way. She makes you notice her kindness. Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged.
Paula Hawkins
#59. Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
Walker Evans
#60. People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith
#61. This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.
Omar El Akkad
#62. Being always right is knowing what you KNOW, knowing what you DON'T know, knowing what you NEED to know and then defining the relationship between all three of them. That's what always being right is.
Todd Travis
#63. The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
Eleanor Catton
#64. Amnesia and complete indifference to history (especially the history of technological amnesia) remain the defining features of contemporary Internet debate.
Evgeny Morozov
#65. History is in charge of putting things in order and society is in charge of defining them. The more order we achieve, the more truth is hidden behind that neat surface... Perhaps literature is about throwing into disarray what has been defined... About making a mess of things, all over again.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#66. We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly.
Jim Stengel
#67. I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process ... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
#68. I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
Edgar Schein
#69. We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.
Tim Hiller
#70. And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse.
Erika Johansen
#71. I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Jill Scott
#72. Defining a mono-racial church as one that has more than 80 percent of its membership consisting of a single racial group, nearly nine in ten (86 percent) congregations, which account for 80 percent of churchgoers, remain essentially mono-racial.46
Robert P. Jones
#73. Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.
David A. Bednar
#74. The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.
Archibald Marwizi
#75. Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.
Mark Batterson
#76. Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
Van Morrison
#77. One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
Robert Silverberg
#78. Defining that special something isn't easy, but when you gazed into her eyes, you could always find it, reflected deep down inside.
Haruki Murakami
#79. I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#80. We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade.
Christopher L. Hayes
#81. Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.
Harvard Business School Press
#82. if we as consumers do not understand what marketing does to us, we are not defining what is enough; we are letting others determine the definition for us. Does the pull of new clothes for a new season influence your decision-making and purchasing power?
Jeff Shinabarger
#83. While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.
Nigella Lawson
#84. It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life.
Louise Erdrich
#85. It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.
Rob Sheffield
#86. We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#87. Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns
#88. The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.
Ian Christe
#89. The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it's resourcefulness.
Tony Robbins
#90. A woman's writing is always feminine; it cannot help being feminine; at its best it is most feminine; the only difficulty lies in defining what we mean by feminine.
Virginia Woolf
#91. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.
Mary Parker Follett
#92. If you believe that the qualities defining you are carved in stone, you will be stuck trying to prove them over and over again, regardless of the circumstances. But if you have a growth mindset, you believe the qualities that define you can be modified and cultivated through effort.
Eric Schmidt
#93. I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
Adam Savage
#94. Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.
Sharon E. Rainey
#95. We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
Sheryl Crow
#96. After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
Daniel Barber
#97. We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
Jeb Bush
#98. The journey of success requires a map for effective navigation. Establish a destination by defining what you want. Once you have a destination, take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.
Perry Moore
#100. Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.
Jim Lee
