Defined Quotes

• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

  J. C. Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

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• Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Long, Identity, Groups

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Names, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

  Robin McGraw

  Believe, Race, Choices

  Robin McGraw (2007). “Inside My Heart Guided Journal: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

  T.I.

  Environment, Our Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Pain, Perspective, Important

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.166, Routledge

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• It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Life, Leadership, Important

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• Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Writing, Silence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

  Julian Barnes

  Heart, Mean, Able

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• The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

  James Madison

  Government, Nullification, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.215

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• Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

  John Dewey

  Independent, Self, People

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• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Men, Rejection

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• Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

  Ezra Pound

  Running, Country, Europe

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• In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history.
  That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

  Michele Bachmann

  Men, Years, East

  "Bachmann burns up Iowa". www.politico.com. April 11, 2011.

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• This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.

  Piet Mondrian

  Ideas, Expression, Lines

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, translated by Daphne Woodward, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 236), 1963.

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• All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hands, Literature, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

  Meg Whitman

  Ebay, World, Commerce

  Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

  Dave McKean

  Strong, Pride, Foundation

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• I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

  Liz Phair

  Mean, Kind, Remember

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• Absolutely, but let me qualify that - I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Mean, Feminist, Movement

  "Christine O'Donnell Running For Senate In Delaware At AFP's RightOnline Conference". Interview at Americans for Prosperity's RightOnline Conference, www.youtube.com. July 2010.

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• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Jesus, Want

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• Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

  Terence Blacker

  Sorry, People, Priorities

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• We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Eye, Rights

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• Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Powerful, Character

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• Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Work, Men

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.129, Transaction Publishers

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