Definitions Quotes - Page 2

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Truth by definition excludes.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.

A milestone is less date and more definition.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted