Definitions Quotes - Page 12

My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

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.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can't verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true.