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• I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Drama, Sadness, Tragedy

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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

  Edwin Catmull

  Creativity, Problem, Broads

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Cartoon, Want

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

  Gwyn Morgan

  People, Culture, Workplace

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• And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sweet, Strong, Mistake

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.198, Macmillan

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• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.81, Random House

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• Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Attitude, Space, Double Standard

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• I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

  Tony Windsor

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  "Tony Windsor looks forward to doing a deal". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2010.

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• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Character, Dark

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

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• The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.

  Monica Esposito

  Mean, Space, Mysterious

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Study, Realizing

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• Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

  Garry Kasparov

  Smell, Weakness, Lasts

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

  Muhammad Ali

  Evil

  “Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

  Cory Doctorow

  Creativity, Ideas, Differences

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Promise, Mind

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.380, Oxford University Press

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• Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Greatness, Expectations

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• We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Temptation, Trying

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 15, 2003.

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• Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Digital, Attributes

  Timothy Leary, Vicki Marshall (1990). “Timothy Leary's Greatest Hits”

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• 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.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Simplicity, Harmony

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• The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

  Penn Jillette

  Hurt, Stupid, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.

  Lynn Steen

  Numbers, Space, Patterns

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Heart, People

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• Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Mean, Numbers, Finite Number

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• My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Would Be, Deeds

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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