Defined Quotes
The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them.
In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.
Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.
I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.
Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.