Top 100 Quotes About Definition
#1. The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.
National Academy Of Sciences
#2. I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
Penn Jillette
#3. Youngish artists have a way of being melancholy. It may be that this is merely a symptom of the distress they feel at the absence of definition. They have no very distinct outline either of themselves or of the abstractions that bedevil them. They are, in short, likely to be a bit baffled.
Wallace Stevens
#4. With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
Thomas Hoving
#5. By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
Anita Roddick
#6. Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
#7. The simplest definition of Parkour is the ability to move quickly and efficiently from one destination to another, using the most direct route with the ability to combat any obstacles along the way.
Jason Jones
#8. Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.
Abraham Ruiz
#9. No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
#10. The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that's no different from Scientology! I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different.
Will Smith
#11. If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant.
Seth Godin
#12. I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.
Jo Walton
#13. He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.
Amie Kaufman
#14. I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
#15. How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.
Usher
#16. The definition of success is total preparation.
George Allen
#17. P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
Ivan Illich
#18. 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
#19. There are, it is often said by the more ecumenical prophets, many paths up the mountain. So long as it helps a person navigate the world and seek out what is good, a path, by definition, has value.
Robert Moor
#20. I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven't come together. More stories like that need to be explored.
Nimrat Kaur
#21. Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
#22. Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?
Milan Kundera
#23. The best-known definition of usability is the one from ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (9241-11): "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
Carol Barnum
#24. Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
John Hardon
#25. Consciousness is anything you define it as. I tell people instead of waiting, just take any definition that you like, and use that, and run with it! So I don't think the issue is that we don't know what consciousness is. The issue is we don't have a consensus on what consciousness is. Far from it.
Stanley Krippner
#26. The definition of integrity is this:
Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.
John G. Miller
#27. Definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.
Frank Delaney
#28. Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.
Brit Marling
#29. Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer
#30. You don't have to let his definition of success be yours
Jody Hedlund
#31. It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
David Geffen
#32. Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.
Anonymous
#33. At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
Kurt Busiek
#34. There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Gerald R. Ford
#35. Words have not only a definition ... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
Mary Oliver
#36. There's no scientific definition. A hymn ... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly.
Keith Getty
#37. By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
Caroline Knapp
#38. Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
OMI
#39. By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
Elizabeth McGovern
#40. It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
Michel De Certeau
#41. My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
Kanye West
#42. My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Alan Rickman
#43. The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.
David Berlinski
#44. When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.
Erich Schiffmann
#45. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#46. My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.
Alex Meraz
#47. My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#48. The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
Karen Traviss
#49. Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made by Margaret Lazarus in 1975 takes credit for first defining the concept
Joyce E. Williams
#50. God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.
Robert Charles Wilson
#51. The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
M. Scott Peck
#52. A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang
#53. Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are ... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.
Aziz Ansari
#54. A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.
Jerry Bridges
#55. To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God's vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
Jim Boeheim
#57. The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds - physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
Helen Keller
#58. My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
Bart D. Ehrman
#60. I dislike the word mythology because of its secondary definition meaning "something untrue." Myth is a Greek word that simply means "story," and mythologies are collections of ancient stories explaining the order of the universe or a society's ideals and customs.
Alaric Albertsson
#61. 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
#62. If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.
Erik Von Markovik
#63. Sometimes you just don't know, what you just don't know until you know it.
If anyone says that meditation and spirituality are weird, tell them the definition of weird is supernatural, and that you'll takes supernatural over mundane any day.
Martha Du'sage
#64. Definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?
Neal Shusterman
#65. I sat with my legs folded under me, my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands. It was very warm
the sun felt strange on my skin now that I was so used to the rain
and the meadow was still lovely, but it was just background now. It didn't stand out. I had a new definition of beauty.
Stephenie Meyer
#66. We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.
Bill Watterson
#67. History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.
Brandon Sanderson
#68. From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.
Edward T. Hall
#69. We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.
Boaz Ganor
#70. By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#71. People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.
Archibald Marwizi
#72. I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.
George Carlin
#73. Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."
Denis Waitley
#74. Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness? He
Steven Erikson
#75. We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
Stephen R. Covey
#76. Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson
#77. A friend is by definition an unpaid therapist.
Erin McCarthy
#78. You've been fucked before, huh?" he asked, angling her so that his piercing slid over her G-spot when he entered. "By the time I'm done, you'll have reassessed your definition
Cherrie Lynn
#79. More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.
Georges Bernanos
#80. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
#81. The prototypical definition of fascism is: It is not enough that I do (or not do) a certain thing; everyone must do (or not do) that thing.
S.T. Joshi
#82. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.
Simon Jenkins
#83. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
#84. I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl
#85. The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
Eric Greitens
#87. I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.
Sandra Cisneros
#88. In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness.
D.T. Max
#89. ...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be.
Autumn
#90. If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.
Surya Das
#91. By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs
Howard Zahniser
#92. There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#93. When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.
Leonard Jacobson
#94. My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people
Osamu Dazai
#95. Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick
#96. All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.
William Ritter
#97. Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
Jim James
#98. A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.
Jim Butcher
#99. Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.
Jerry Spinelli
#100. [My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality ... a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
Robert Hayden
