Defining Quotes - Page 2

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.