Definitions Quotes - Page 17

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.

A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.