The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine… The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear… — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Copy Share Image
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly."… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
At first, the idea of doing a 90-minute workout in a 40 degree room sounded like torture. But the sweating is exactly… — Rebecca Romijn Copy Share Image
I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content. — Carl Magnusson Copy Share Image
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
If I was an octopus, I would check my emails while I feed myself while I pick my nose while I masturbate… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
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