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• The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

  Gwyn Morgan

  People, Culture, Workplace

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• A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center... either you are out, yearning.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Names

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• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  Susan Faludi

  Self Esteem, Believe, Feminism

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• Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

  Jim Rohn

  Simple, Doctors, Apples

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• The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

  Gloria Feldt

  Partners, Promiscuity

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• One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Growing Up, Self, Challenges

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• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Punishment, Errors

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• Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mistake, People, Experts

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• A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Technology, Progress

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• Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, People, Perfect

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• The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

  David Hockney

  Real, Perspective, Problem

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Categories

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• We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Temptation, Trying

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 15, 2003.

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• My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

  Carolyn Warner

  Winning, Mind, My Favorite

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• If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Shipping

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.195, Penguin

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• I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Drama, Sadness, Tragedy

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sweet, Strong, Mistake

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.198, Macmillan

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• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.81, Random House

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• I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

  Tony Windsor

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  "Tony Windsor looks forward to doing a deal". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2010.

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• The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.

  Monica Esposito

  Mean, Space, Mysterious

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• A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

  Fred Brooks

  Men, Dumb, Syntax

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• My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

  Muhammad Ali

  Evil

  “Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Promise, Mind

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.380, Oxford University Press

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• Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Leadership, Christian, Keys

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Heart, People

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