Definitions Quotes

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

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

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Truth by definition excludes.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.