Definitions Quotes

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

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.

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

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.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

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

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

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

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

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

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

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.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.