Defining famous quotes

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

#Stronger #Noise #Defining

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

#Six #Defining #Impossible

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

#World #Fifty #Defining

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Identity #Fans #Defining

The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.
-- Andrew C. McCarthy

#Brotherhood #Defining #Missions

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
-- Anne Provoost

#Self #People #Defining

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
-- Aristotle

#Defining #Principles #Add

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
-- Benjamin Lee Whorf

#Writing #Defining #Language

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 OO is likely to be successful
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Successful #Class #Defining

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
-- Brennan Manning

#Believe #Defining #Spirit

All I want is the defining moment.
-- Brian Bosworth

#Want #Defining Moments #Defining

I don't like defining myself. I just am.
-- Britney Spears

#Defining

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
-- Diane Wakoski

#Defining #Different #Literature

Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.
-- Douglas Bloch

#Self #Anxiety #Defining

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Giving Up #Giving #Defining

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Spiritual #Defining #Define Yourself

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Sorry #Needs #Defining

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.
-- Emma Watson

#Who We Are #Defining

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
-- Eva Mendes

#Sexy #Ambition #Defining

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
-- Gene Wolfe

#Believe #Defining #Truth Is

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Science #Defining #Term

The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
-- Hans Christian von Baeyer

#Long #Velocity #Defining

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Defining #Moments #Deposits

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
-- Jill Scott

#Thinking #Matter #Defining

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
-- John Hodgman

#Book #Sorrow #Defining

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
-- John Podhoretz

#Way #Defining

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
-- John Sununu

#Marriage #Law #Defining

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.
-- Kenneth Cole

#Men #Want #Defining

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.
-- Lisa Rinna

#Defining #Want #Next

...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.
-- Lynn G. Robbins

#Sacrifice #Giving #Defining

Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#Contentment #Defining #Suggestions

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!
-- Mark Batterson

#Decision #Defining #Different

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
-- Martin Filler

#Defining #Movement #Architecture

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
-- Max Eastman

#Writing #Artist #Defining

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.
-- Miguel

#Beautiful #Succeed #Defining

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.
-- Mitchell Kapor

#Google #Defining #Microsoft

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
-- Noah Baumbach

#Taste #Defining #Genuine

All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Dream #Vision #Defining

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Destiny #People #Defining

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
-- Paul Begala

#Winning #Defining #Debate

Music is a defining element of character.
-- Plato

#Character #Musical #Defining

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
-- Ravi Zacharias

#Defining #Holiness #Moments

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Defining #Nervous #English Language

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
-- Robert M. Hensel

#Who We Are #Defining #Disability

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
-- Serge Lang

#Disease #Defining #Negative

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
-- Simon R. Green

#Likes #Defining #Losing

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.
-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Defining #Mathematics

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
-- Stephen Daldry

#Defining

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson

#Defining #Characteristics #Futility

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 by the objects of our regret.
-- Stephen Tobolowsky

#Regret #Character #Defining

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Thinking #Defining #Gender

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
-- Taiye Selasi

#Who I Am #Defining #Twins

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
-- Thomas Friedman

#Political #Gold #Defining

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
-- Tom DeLonge

#Idols #Guy #Defining

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.
-- Tony Robbins

#Defining #Resources #Resourcefulness

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong
-- Wentworth Miller

#People #Definitions #Defining

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
-- William Hague

#Decision #Defining #Would Be

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
-- Arthur Tress

#Photography #Confusing #Defining

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.
-- Elizabeth Crook

#Book #Play #Defining

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.
-- Ian Christe

#Kids #Looks #Defining

[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to Get Away with Murder] ." It has nothing to do with that. She just happens to be a Latina.
-- Karla Souza

#Character #Defining #Murder

I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.
-- Lauren Iungerich

#Struggle #Defining #Take Control

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.
-- Salil Shetty

#Issues #Defining #Privacy

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.
-- Robert Dessaix

#Tree #Woods #Defining

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
-- Edgar Schein

#Roles #Defining #Term

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.
-- George Elliott Clarke

#Stars #Defining #Define Yourself

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
-- Jacques Hadamard

#Defining #Entity #Existence