Definitions Quotes - Page 38

• Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

  Liz Stanley

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

  Roland Huntford

  Life, Attitude, Hero

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• To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.

  Whitney Tilson

  Believe, Majority, Crowds

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• Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Inspiring, Weakness, Way

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

  Crispin Glover

  Animal, Geek

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• The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations.

  Randy Carlson

  Christian, Disappointment, Reality

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• It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken,
  And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.'
  Pigs on parade, but bacon fryin' and cookin',
  Cause kids' tired of dyin' and walkin' round like they shooken.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Tired, Kids

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• No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

  Joseph Stanislaw

  Reality, Numbers, Waiting

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• Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Art, Reality, Perfection

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.255

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• There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, That One Person, Fighter

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Music, Sex, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.26, Penguin

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

  William Feather

  Teamwork, Honest, Mutual

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• My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want people to think I'm sexy for what I look like, I want them to find me sexy for who I am and what I do.

  Jessica Biel

  Sexy, Believe, Thinking

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• Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life. The calculation of intrinsic value, though, is not so simple. As our definition suggests, intrinsic value is an estimate rather than a precise figure, and it is additionally an estimate that must be changed if interest rates move or forecasts of future cash flows are revised.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Taken, Simple

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

  Arthur Koestler

  Individuality, Multitudes, Divided

  Darkness at Noon (1941) (translation by Daphne Hardy)

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• If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Thinking, Fairness, Odd

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• ... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

  Shirley Brice Heath

  Would Be, World, Facts

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• The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Expression, Events

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• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Beautiful, Important

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

  Jose Mujica

  Contentment, Needs, Too Much

  “Can Uruguay's Pauper President Be an International Role Model?” by Orion Jones, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

  Diane Nash

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• The change that is coming to the body of Christ is so profound that the world will have a new definition of Christianity... Those who submit to Him in truth... will be the most dangerous and powerful people on earth, and will be the greatest threat to the Antichrist spirit that now sits in the church as a substitute for Him.

  Rick Joyner

  Powerful, People, Profound

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• It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Running, Real, Goal

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