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. — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Do you realize what's been done to this whole definition of immigrants? The way Democrats and the left talk about immigration, immigration… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But all I said, as I dug a five from my pocket to pay for my soda, was, "You have a friend?"… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi Copy Share Image
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
STOREROOM: The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short… — Jonathan Swift 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