Defining Quotes

287 quotes by 258 authors

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the… — Walter Salles
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of… — Donald Evans
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how… — Elliot Richardson
We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center… — Adam Johnson
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. — Debra Messing
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in… — Michael Mandelbaum
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of… — Jay McInerney
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us… — Joshua Harris
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life… — Blake Mycoskie
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly,… — Abraham Maslow
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry — Max Beerbohm
The defining factor [for success] is never resources; its resourcefulness. — Suman Rai
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say — Superman
Opportunity is who we are. And the defining project of our generation must be to restore that promise. — Barack Obama
I stand, before the alter of Love. Last of my kind. Love made flesh, Passion's Aspect. Upon it I place my great heart. My gift,… — Eric Nickel
Today's decision by the IRA to move into a new peaceful mode is historic and represents a courageous and confident initiative. It is truly momentous… — Gerry Adams
Those who talk about love all the time are the ones who are still in the phase of defining love. — Anuj Somany
Honestly it would be great to get to play Pam for a long, long time. I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie… — Jenna Fischer

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