Define Quotes
1539 quotes by 1171 authors
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I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our…
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context…
— Lucy Irvine
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The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person…
— Chrissie Wellington
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Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
— Slavoj Žižek
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Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.
— Chip Conley
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Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No…
— Robert Bringhurst
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly…
— Albert J. Nock
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul…
— Matthew Scully
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind…
— Hakim Bey
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
— Phillips Brooks
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If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
— Tim Ferriss
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Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and…
— Otto Penzler
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You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles…
— John Thorn
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We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what…
— Selma James
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be…
— William Glasser
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I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
— Mia Kirshner
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If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also…
— Ludwik Fleck
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Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether…
— Eckhart Tolle
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