Defining Quotes

287 quotes by 262 authors

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and… — Martin Seligman
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry. — Mitchell Kapor
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us… — Katherine Dunn
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — G. M Gilbert
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Marcus Rediker
Music is a defining element of character. — Plato
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have… — Michael Parenti
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend… — Andrew Solomon
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid… — Andrew Solomon
The defining factor [for success] is never resources; itâ€™s resourcefulness. — Tony Robbins
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that… — Ken Burns
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for… — Dan Coats
In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it… — Brian Tracy
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as… — Ted Nelson
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for… — Sandy Berger
Dr. Alex Loyd has the defining healing technology in the world today â€“ It (The Healing Code) will revolutionize healthâ€¦ It is the easiest way… — Mark Victor Hansen
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the… — Rosemary Radford Ruether
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional… — Jonathan Ive
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely… — Patricia K Page
The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems. — Aaron T. Beck

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