Defined Quotes · Page 14

Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account…

— Mark Krikorian

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be…

— Gurbaksh Chahal

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then…

— Italo Calvino

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

— Anne Stevenson

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what…

— Herbie Hancock

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an…

— Epicurus

You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the…

— Randall Terry

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the…

— Bainbridge Colby

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

— Jonathan Sacks

The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Betty Friedan

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

— Ian MacKaye

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

— Ben Domenech

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

— Henry Giroux

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

— Harold Prince

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed…

— Joanna Scott

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention…

— Fons Trompenaars

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical…

— Wes Jackson

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

— Erwin Panofsky

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I never wish to be easily defined.

— Franz Kafka