Defined Quotes - Page 15

• Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

  Mark Patterson

  Destiny, Your Destiny, Our Destiny

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• We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

  Mark Stevenson

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• When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point; I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Differences, Over You

  "Anna Quindlen On Tooting Your Own Horn, Fearlessness And Raising Feminist Sons". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2014.

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Drama, Character, Greatness

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Numbers, Land

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• Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Darkness, World, Conflict

  "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.

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• I want to be defined by my own essence.

  Kathy Bates

  Essence, Want, My Own

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• If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

  Eliza Coupe

  Book, Character, Phones

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

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• We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

  Emma Caulfield

  Mistake, Succeed

  "Exclusive Q&A: Actress Emma Caulfield Picks the Right TiMER". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

  Melanie Fiona

  Artist, Rocks, What Matters

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• For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Class, Entrepreneur, Michigan

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• I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

  Jim Breyer

  Thinking, Results, Should

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• The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Technology, Firsts

  "Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.

  Rene Dubos

  Real, Health, Groups

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• Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

  Stedman Graham

  Race, Color, Skills

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• I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Fun, Different, Actors

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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• But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

  Michael Polanyi

  Topography, Physics

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• There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Responsible

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• There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  John Thune

  Men, States, Statutes

  "Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks national security; Sen. John Thune on Romney veepstakes". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2012.

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• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  Nancy Travis

  Girlfriend, Wife, Said

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.

  George Gilder

  Powerful, Creativity, Appreciate

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friendship, Looks, Want

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• Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Risk

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• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  Walter Lang

  Today, Way, Various

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