Defined Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces

  Brett Jones

  Exercise, Looks, Produce

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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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• Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Opposites

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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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• Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

  John Hickenlooper

  Past, Cities, Denver

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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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• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Government, Law, States

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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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• The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Organization, Innovation, Analysis

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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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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• The first day of the brand new calendar year is an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find own life charged emotionally with a refined energy & enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and the rules of the game called life.

  Anuj

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

  Bobbi Brown

  Looks, Brows, Polished

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• A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

  Randy Wayne White

  Party, Ideas, Suffering

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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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• No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

  Arno Gruen

  Matter, Relationships With Others, Becoming

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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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• One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Blessing, Practice, Grace

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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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• Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Wise, Decision, Body

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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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• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  Natalia Kills

  Happened, Bad Things

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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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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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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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