Definitions Quotes - Page 30

There isn't a formal definition of success.

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

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.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

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."

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.

If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles.

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.