Defining Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

The lacy fight was a career defining fight.

When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.