Defined Quotes

I never wish to be easily defined.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others

I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

I also think you have less separation if you are fuller. If you go to the gym and pump your arms up they are bigger because of the blood volume, the fullness. But the separation is not so defined.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

I am not a girl that can ever be defined. I am not fly, I am levitation..I represent an entire generation!

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight, his ability to punch and take a punch.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.