Definite Quotes

• I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Simple, Giving, Trying

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Knowing, Water, Depth

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• In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

  Helmut Newton

  California, House, Backyards

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• In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Stories, Safe

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

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• Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Past, Atmosphere

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• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, Mind, Doing Nothing

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Events, Atoms

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

  Graham Chapman

  Argument, Contradiction, Connected

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• Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

  John Wooden

  Games, Play, Defense

  "VIEWS OF SPORT; John Wooden: Basketball Is Fouling Out". New York Times interview, www.nytimes.com. August 20, 1989.

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• Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

  William Taylor

  Together, Purpose, Hours

  William Taylor (1876). “David, King of Israel”, p.37

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• Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Feminine, Animus

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• The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.

  Joshua Harris

  Home, Technology, Challenges

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• If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Roots, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Village, Bread

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Expression, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Strong, Mean

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• You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

  William James

  Art, Mistake, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

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• Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Science, Ideas, Greek

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• God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

  John Henry Newman

  Work, Angel, Connections

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• Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

  David Frost

  Inspirational, Work, Two

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