Defining Quotes

287 quotes by 262 authors

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining… — Kevin Bales
Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is,… — Joey Reiman
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life. — Sheryl Crow
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem… — David Suzuki
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities,Â all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary… — Jane McGonigal
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with… — David Korten
First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their… — Sheena Iyengar
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere
I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift… — Jon Gordon
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein
Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined… — Stephen Tobolowsky
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom. — Jay Weatherill
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its… — Jacques Monod
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it… — Ad Reinhardt
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where… — Bjarne Stroustrup
Using less of the Earthâ€™s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are… — Jeremy Rifkin
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.'… — Dwayne Johnson
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious. — Albert Einstein
At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we… — Bill O'Reilly

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