Defined Quotes - Page 14

• The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Kindness, Made, Universe

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.54, Gibbs Smith

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• Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

  Trent Lott

  Blue, Media, Red

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• Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

  Earl Weaver

  Leadership, Sports, Honesty

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• It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

  Bobby Knight

  Leadership, Sports, Discipline

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• I am not a girl that can ever be defined. I am not fly, I am levitation..I represent an entire generation!

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Generations, Levitation

  Song: Fly

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• 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.

  Neil Peart

  School, Adults, Extroverts

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical, Important

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• I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. February 2009.

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• For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Class, Use, Language

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.

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• Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Desire

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• Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Meditation, Want

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arbitration, Burning, May

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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• 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.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Deceit, Instinct

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

  Bobbi Brown

  Looks, Brows, Polished

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• How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!

  Rachel Hamilton

  Beautiful, True Beauty, World

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• I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Self, World, Rupture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Men, Garden

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• I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

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• It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Body, Bears, Remember

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.252, Commodius Vicus

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• I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

  Mike Rowe

  Fun, Dirty, Hard Work

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• Who will dare say he has defined art?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Dare

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
  container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than
  what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?  Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

  Paige Bradley

  Race, Numbers, World

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• I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

  Paige Bradley

  Body, Pondering, Containers

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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