Defining Quotes - Page 8

• Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

  David Weinberger

  Jobs, Learning, Knowledge

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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• It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.

  Jon Hein

  Jumping, Sharks, Television

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• This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Sorrow

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.14, Penguin

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• I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Thinking, Different

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.132, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Every indication is that the Sudanese government will be defining it as an Arab, Muslim country. But there are also a lot of Christians and a lot of people, like the Nuba, who are not Arab. And that is why it is going to be problematic that Sudan will be defined in this way.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Christian, Country, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions.

  Edan Lepucki

  Simple, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and figuring out what its wobbly borders were was a long-term and exhaustive process. I had all of these different ways of categorizing the apocalypses I had made. I had a period of time where I cut them up.

  Lucy Corin

  Cutting, Long, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Support, Southern

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• The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

  Ian Christe

  Kids, Looks, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

  Brennan Manning

  Believe, Spirit, Surrender

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• People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it's not a choice. I'm really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I'm honored to be a part of it.

  Leslie Jordan

  Gay, Thinking, Color

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Personality, Style

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Ideas, Interesting, Voting

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• We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Husband, College, Men

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Girl, Struggle, Artist

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through the early 1920s came here desiring to become Americans. They wanted to become part of what was a unique and distinct American culture. They were all coming from tyranny of one kind or another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, Differences, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.

  Priti Patel

  Healing, Focus, Principles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the most girly way possible, meaning that if it was a line that could change or something different I'd like to see, I would think about each one and say, "Well, this one can wait till the set because I don't want to bring up too many things."

  Geena Davis

  Girly, Reading, Eye

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

  Maureen Howard

  Sight, Looks, World

  Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

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• Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Air, Water, Causes

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• There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown women. It was a professional race, but I ended up winning. That was kind of a turning point for me where I felt like, "Okay, I'm pretty good at this and there's a possibility for this to be a career for me." That was a defining moment for me.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Athlete, School

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

  Paula White

  Uncles, Eye, House

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.

  Paula White

  People, Understanding, Important

  Source: culteducation.com

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