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• The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Followers

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.103, Routledge

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• I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Love Is, Chance, Kind

  "Bush Front Man Gavin Rossdale Behind the Scenes + 'Glycerine' Acoustic" by Nikki Battiste, abcnews.go.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Climbing, Mountain

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• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Systematic, Logic

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• When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hands, Purpose, Redemption

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

  Scott Belsky

  Achievement, Vision, Steps

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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• When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

  Ron Paul

  War, Republic, Tyranny

  "War power authority should be returned to Congress". Speech in Congress, March. 9, 1999.

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• My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Real, Government, Judging

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• Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Return, Process

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Self, Messages

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 27, 2017

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• The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Revolution, Impossible

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• Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

  Andre Breton

  Imagination, Artistic, Fidelity

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• The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Hate, Thinking

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• The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, People, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

  Paula Scher

  Gambling, Play, Two

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• In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Mean, Past

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• He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Greatness, Giving

  "Day of service honors Martin Luther King Jr". www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Fallen World, Mercy

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

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• Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

  B. J. Palmer

  Miracle, Analysis, Manifestation

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• The definition of love is giving.

  Bai Ling

  Love, Giving, Love Is

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• Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

  James Carroll

  Memories, Stories, Narrative

  James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

  Faith Hill

  Style, Bits

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• One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ideas, Should, Distracted

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• I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

  Benjamin Zander

  Eye, Simple, Shining

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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