Defined Quotes - Page 18

• We're kind of defined by our mistakes

  Tommy Shaw

  Mistake, Kind

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• Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

  Bill Courtney

  Achievement, Should, Who You Are

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.157, Weinstein Publishing

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

  Angela Davis

  Class, Empowerment, Process

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.9, Vintage

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• Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.

  Barbara Deming

  Christian, Jesus, Love You

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

  Starhawk

  Stories, Actors, World

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• Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, Path, Adults

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

  Robert Haugen

  Identity, Use, Way

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 2, Estimating Expected Return with the Theories of Modern Finance, p. 16, 1999.

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• We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Males, Spotlight, Able

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• ... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Appreciation, Caring, Organization

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• I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

  Gwen Raverat

  People, Definitions

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd

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• Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

  Charlene Li

  Leadership, People, Position

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• Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Freedom, Guarantees, Today

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Men, Needs, Felt

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• Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.

  Dark, Light, Color

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• Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and discernment of, the nature of reality that is apprehended only by wisdom, which transcends and is prior to the activity of discriminative thought. In this view, delusion is defined as all that is opposed to enlightenment.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Nature, Reality, Views

  Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.1, SUNY Press

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• Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Dog, Sex, Fun

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

  Wentworth Miller

  People, Definitions, Defining

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

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• To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, People, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.108, e-artnow

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• The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Government, Cases

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.95

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• Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

  Andrew Pyper

  Horror, Contact, Provoking

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• Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Night, Needs

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.213, Hoover Press

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• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  Edith Hamilton

  Plato, Believe, Reality

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Echo of Greece”, New York : W. W. Norton

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• The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

  Robert Morse

  Art, Entertainment, Great Men

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