Definite Quotes

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

There is a definite link between gratitude and spirituality.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.

Have a definite opinion.

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.