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I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. (/q817405978468c2b278463dd01a5f025a) Votes: 4
Jonathan Safran Foer (/author/Jonathan+Safran+Foer) The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. (/qe32c65e7a87fe33a22ee6661ce56e17a) Votes: 4 James A. Baldwin (/author/James+A.+Baldwin) We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. (/q4a1caf05b9eea7dc09b4022d13ba4fd8) Votes: 4 Yitzhak Rabin (/author/Yitzhak+Rabin) One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. (/q8dc4d41237c8b004df417920580cc4ac) Votes: 4 Alvin Toffler (/author/Alvin+Toffler) Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. (/qca154c227a38bdafa1ba169caf00670d) Votes: 4 Tryon Edwards (/author/Tryon+Edwards) A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. (/q081382ec8b5c09b27f87cecd53021178) Votes: 4 Russell Lynes (/author/Russell+Lynes) Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. (/qecd9afc50c9338fb317cddf6a3f719a1) Votes: 4 Paul Rand (/author/Paul+Rand) I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. (/q8c111ec62440f762d9205bdb8cccc907) Votes: 4 Mark Knopfler (/author/Mark+Knopfler) Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? (/qe912ef993d4b8d4bf6a8bf8e89caf925) Votes: 4 Dennis Prager (/author/Dennis+Prager) It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. (/q20e3bf395f2daf0fea81a79fc72e095a) Votes: 4 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (/author/Elisabeth+Kubler-Ross) Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. (/qa70708d02f632b6c354a63176b891ef6) Votes: 3 Toni Morrison (/author/Toni+Morrison) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage. (/qbcd685f1096ff82f2ce6332d627ba960) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed. (/qab21ce32eb29319be6355b4b478e3d99) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. (/q63d27151be27e8f1c65b37fac4ed09e8) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use (/qfd1ca7d621341f260ddc8f0a92eff86b) Votes: 3 Karl Popper (/author/Karl+Popper) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it. (/q6ca4c54832beb6c9cab19734bcc46248) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible. (/q2772ca26709c99b9c2c92a045f267992) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill. (/q188f823c7cfe2415a60a6f09f85baa5d) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them. (/q0573a4d1d4e47d7e0c5515856e6e9a8c) Votes: 3 Robert M. Pirsig (/author/Robert+M.+Pirsig) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. (/q561eef0e9ee4702f1b7b586320184266) Votes: 3
Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. (/q792a569aa8084d494a98a81d5bc59a65) Votes: 3
Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. (/q634e51b6ce721122f6296823af817309) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. (/q5eff76c1185210859144e620b7d7f4ed) Votes: 3
Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. (/q028a17df7c79e8521d7679364fd089c8) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. (/q9bc757736d0825016a2ebf6ca4032340) Votes: 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (/author/Jean-Jacques+Rousseau) Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. (/q92ecbd78e4cb8aed44ea1272e706fea9) Votes: 3 Smiley Blanton (/author/Smiley+Blanton) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. (/q0256c36190ee4ff52990a66e75c8475e) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. (/q2da4adea0a51923ef6ad0047843dadaa) Votes: 3 Idries Shah (/author/Idries+Shah) Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. (/qf1f54d4d4bd3ee0c7e7c9f02047b7a23) Votes: 3 Hal Duncan (/author/Hal+Duncan) Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. (/q38bc2f111ffdbcd4d1e8febe88f7e8e7) Votes: 3 Ayn Rand (/author/Ayn+Rand) Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and conceptsparticularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. (/qf3f0af75b87e61c94d60dc6596ce9fb3) Votes: 3 Ernst Mayr (/author/Ernst+Mayr) Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions. (/q8b55d598eef3e955fe2fcedb0c7375f6) Votes: 3 S. I. Hayakawa (/author/S.+I.+Hayakawa) Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy. (/qd0613266088defa4ec252e6d6d091532) Votes: 3 Leopold Kronecker (/author/Leopold+Kronecker) My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. (/qefa55a1d0704521f3a6f82494d27ea21) Votes: 3 Isaac Newton (/author/Isaac+Newton) There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. (/qeab4e3f67dc0835be8a806d132ba1146) Votes: 2 Frank Dobson (/author/Frank+Dobson) Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (/qbf36f57e9ca3b88085d71d5659cb56dd) Votes: 2 Harvey Fierstein (/author/Harvey+Fierstein) My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. (/q037fa87a48c7edf02fed6f136d56a313) Votes: 2 Larry Hagman (/author/Larry+Hagman) The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. (/q1361b58bb93b6b00f7625aa68d06c66b) Votes: 2 Jonathan Swift (/author/Jonathan+Swift) My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. (/q9f45029de8d2289f8403a7c630c3bcce) Votes: 2 Jimmy Kimmel (/author/Jimmy+Kimmel) There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it. (/q958463c54effce3d073c4c873e09ed56) Votes: 2
Melody Beattie (/author/Melody+Beattie) For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. (/qca234745c97eeb2362aad600a61c8926) Votes: 2 Jonathan Swift (/author/Jonathan+Swift) The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. (/qb3306a15ac3edd428cd05a8864880037) Votes: 2 Andrew Wiles (/author/Andrew+Wiles) People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. (/qf54edfb07c75fa353a338a8046c3b630) Votes: 2 Tony Levin (/author/Tony+Levin) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. (/q443116585e4f51a58e7264e424a9ffee) Votes: 2 James A. Baldwin (/author/James+A.+Baldwin) There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. (/q5994fc98a8612c68d61e1dba42ddf037) Votes: 2 Liv Tyler (/author/Liv+Tyler) I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. (/q6dc3b930f81250643b3acdbfc932bbf5) Votes: 2 Audrey Hepburn (/author/Audrey+Hepburn) Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (/q3fc1fe2ae197c12fe76b0e82155ccd21) Votes: 2 Harvey Fierstein (/author/Harvey+Fierstein) Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. (/q377542dc99c2bd3f32c12551884ed6a6) Votes: 2 Evan Esar (/author/Evan+Esar) It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. (/qe1be998a36705ebc27d28430c43588cb) Votes: 2 G. H. Hardy (/author/G.+H.+Hardy) If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (/qccf4ea2f20a748f1f7093ce67831e460) Votes: 2 Vladimir Lenin (/author/Vladimir+Lenin) Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. (/q21f2c028f01799277524fe040a557d89) Votes: 2 Edward Levi (/author/Edward+Levi) I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy. (/qf678b9a9b04f189f6c397f59244f2dc0) Votes: 2 Vera Farmiga (/author/Vera+Farmiga) Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. (/q1940c4fa5cbfee7f3e5b0d8f0eebef38) Votes: 2 Ron Paul (/author/Ron+Paul) I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field. (/q3dd6a873bfb7ef7a484d4f8feeefdf7d) Votes: 2 Hope Solo (/author/Hope+Solo) I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. (/q9e44b93a4cbb0b7e7bd35b53e59675ed) Votes: 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/author/Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge) Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. (/q6a48d12d6c666532ec1a79dbf4615119) Votes: 2 Ambrose Bierce (/author/Ambrose+Bierce) My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. (/q892246926448aae5085eef2b5d1662cb) Votes: 2 Charles Kettering (/author/Charles+Kettering) If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business. (/q1b79370918c65c842dd123a0e7c77c37) Votes: 2 Marc Benioff (/author/Marc+Benioff) Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next? (/qa7f244ee8282d7b506969a8b181ea2b0) Votes: 2 Anne Sweeney (/author/Anne+Sweeney) All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there. (/q85c1904da6bbd96857b2a50188f3552b) Votes: 2 Jay Griffiths (/author/Jay+Griffiths) Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. (/qc6524fba774eb4ca10690f2780144910) Votes: 2 Saul Bellow (/author/Saul+Bellow) The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. (/q35c03113b55a2217c513833aaa9a11f4) Votes: 2 Martin Filler (/author/Martin+Filler) People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says. (/q0fb2d802b8e50267d2b474a73a5b31c2) Votes: 2 Elaine Pagels (/author/Elaine+Pagels) If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. (/q624974cff1d71f29d7ead3a617bc9e44) Votes: 2 George S. Patton (/author/George+S.+Patton) When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. (/q0665ace9a3110465a6ab8883457b660e) Votes: 2 Ravi Zacharias (/author/Ravi+Zacharias) The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. (/qca4223797ed7a40375503d7bdfc36512) Votes: 2
Jon Meacham (/author/Jon+Meacham) The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. (/q01b80c67a7b03ad981053c513ffdbff3) Votes: 2 Eckhart Tolle (/author/Eckhart+Tolle) How likely are definitions to be pleasurable. (/q8714b1906e90657447a9a1b1ad358a6a) Votes: 0 Gertrude Stein (/author/Gertrude+Stein) Odd that we think definitions are definitive. (/q9ee96c5252bf6fa829b171f7d3236a0d) Votes: 0 Larry Wall (/author/Larry+Wall) Mankind is a science that defies definitions. (/q658a024ff077f6da5542368934bd55a3) Votes: 0 Robert Burns (/author/Robert+Burns) The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. (/qaef50d4d5acd5fc7adb8f637b627bd56) Votes: 0 Camille Paglia (/author/Camille+Paglia) Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. (/qbc50b57a0c4acc79a9f7a4ee2395fdd9) Votes: 0 Saul Bellow (/author/Saul+Bellow) There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it. (/q4f2edc5735a4da4643e1b28285ecf08e) Votes: 0 Jane Velez-Mitchell (/author/Jane+Velez-Mitchell) A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. (/q479c468e40920b0b0bc690bd366215dc) Votes: 0 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (/author/Karl+Wilhelm+Friedrich+Schlegel) Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. (/q7adf58bbf27419d744b487b7c39858c7) Votes: 0 Hillary Clinton (/author/Hillary+Clinton) Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes. (/q6bac77b78e91459559d287db8ab07c17) Votes: 0 Nathanael Emmons (/author/Nathanael+Emmons) The battle for the world is the battle for definitions. (/q92de2a423b4e98752d41d8e759090658) Votes: 0 Thomas Szasz (/author/Thomas+Szasz) The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith. (/q914733324eb9d2f598c0029b66324b26) Votes: 0 Alphonsus Liguori (/author/Alphonsus+Liguori) Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true. (/q0925969c9de0586621361825239b2e41) Votes: 0 Thomas Daniel Nehrer (/author/Thomas+Daniel+Nehrer) There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable. (/q5034030a06e6793423e7ddcf09f4115e) Votes: 0 Mahatma Gandhi (/author/Mahatma+Gandhi) No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions. (/q83247feadca1106a9b2df320bd273229) Votes: 0 W. Edwards Deming (/author/W.+Edwards+Deming) One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions. (/qe05fd3284df49e89c5c1849750e11b43) Votes: 0 Neil deGrasse Tyson (/author/Neil+deGrasse+Tyson) Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. (/q158eeb3d74f968987253b77ecc2420ec) Votes: 0 Ming-Dao Deng (/author/Ming-Dao+Deng) I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. (/qc319bf385d7903567d717170ee098cdf) Votes: 0 Donald Knuth (/author/Donald+Knuth) I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions. (/q9f559dd4cbf73f32a407db142bfd6da7) Votes: 0 Dave Winer (/author/Dave+Winer) Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. (/q789bb4f293c975ed36722a4026c712ef) Votes: 0 Rick Perlstein (/author/Rick+Perlstein) Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. (/q9e9137ca97e4069c9708293eba22bd63) Votes: 0 Dennis Potter (/author/Dennis+Potter) If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions. (/qfe4d9ecadeadcca5a7ffcff79e5d37eb) Votes: 0 Starhawk (/author/Starhawk) The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. (/q9ae77efdb4db23d07837cbf9db7085d2) Votes: 0 Abraham Lincoln (/author/Abraham+Lincoln) It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. (/q441db95346151b157acfb4da8b52bab8) Votes: 0 Samuel Johnson (/author/Samuel+Johnson) Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. (/qcdf6b0b841dfc26b608fd8522db2ffd0) Votes: 0 Wallace Stevens (/author/Wallace+Stevens) Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. (/qac55bca24c1d3219063957d10bcc34bb) Votes: 0 Oliver Heaviside (/author/Oliver+Heaviside) Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it. (/qa75aba896aa0cfa77d7bf928182b9de5) Votes: 0
Thomas Daniel Nehrer (/author/Thomas+Daniel+Nehrer) Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt! (/qf91d41a6ca7c14999fd54d95b1e72651) Votes: 0 Israelmore Ayivor (/author/Israelmore+Ayivor) He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. (/qa3d9066edaf80f898db6476376846e39) Votes: 0 Peter L. Berger (/author/Peter+L.+Berger) Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...! (/qd72ba47c055fbe540768274deab9991b) Votes: 0 Israelmore Ayivor (/author/Israelmore+Ayivor) In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre. (/qde25007e0d9427bf066d71090076e933) Votes: 0
John D'Agata (/author/John+D%27Agata) Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. (/qb31ff4be2309ff40cc87aaba100a9236) Votes: 0 Stephen Nachmanovitch (/author/Stephen+Nachmanovitch) Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. (/qb56e42fedda49836a581af9bd33b3b3b) Votes: 0 J. Philippe Rushton (/author/J.+Philippe+Rushton) Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. (/q42fd13bfc5fb58d3ddc4dfa85a519576) Votes: 0 Patricia Hill Collins (/author/Patricia+Hill+Collins) A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions (/q55aae5359d4b461a6281d1fdc9c0ad29) Votes: 0 Anatol Rapoport (/author/Anatol+Rapoport) Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about. (/q035ca8df632ca044976e3608c34582e8) Votes: 0 John D'Agata (/author/John+D%27Agata) I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex. (/qe7d599480cd0ef547c840d6eb66fe045) Votes: 0 Nate Parker (/author/Nate+Parker) One of the definitions for "mad" is "wild"; I'm certainly all for wild as opposed to domesticated. (/q2ef50f2d964505498babebacdb71dff2) Votes: 0
Sharon Gannon (/author/Sharon+Gannon) After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. (/q82259cdd4bda1201ab210dcb2d6fced0) Votes: 0 Trevor Dunn (/author/Trevor+Dunn) In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary are, in the largest sense, political. (/q0400876479f7ac58bf3d6383fb21a4e1) Votes: 0 Susan Sontag (/author/Susan+Sontag) Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. (/q9f00ac3509fea17119c581f57d70581a) Votes: 0
Jeff Cooper (/author/Jeff+Cooper) Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. (/qe2b61efae01d9029c865d787814bb6a2) Votes: 0 Toni Morrison (/author/Toni+Morrison) The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. (/q243c2f6d94e12e57674f4a30a64bb983) Votes: 0 Rob Bell (/author/Rob+Bell) There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand. (/qd3d5616e42bb06436b40dfa0ba38d1bc) Votes: 0 Mary E. Pearson (/author/Mary+E.+Pearson) There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. (/qb73230e93f0b3dcc996b304e64576170) Votes: 0 Edmond de Goncourt (/author/Edmond+de+Goncourt) Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. (/qba10a24d8ad488d5987a044a472765ee) Votes: 0 Eckhart Tolle (/author/Eckhart+Tolle) For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions. (/qf231c3233596826960bbbbfd66a3f6f9) Votes: 0 Hani Furstenberg (/author/Hani+Furstenberg) In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying. (/q2f01fa776e3d46e59ade2fcf56d9aa8d) Votes: 0 Jim Broadbent (/author/Jim+Broadbent) Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none. (/qb4ad7ac0b475d59596ca3981bd774616) Votes: 0 Kathryn Minshew (/author/Kathryn+Minshew) There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be. (/qcb667ca0ca0739c8797eb6643b973471) Votes: 0 Gina McKee (/author/Gina+McKee) If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women. (/qd288fe9d59e4d2920aa3439478aabd86) Votes: 0 Mahatma Gandhi (/author/Mahatma+Gandhi) People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? (/q449b9057e6913ba35149c75fced83303) Votes: 0 Mizuki Nomura (/author/Mizuki+Nomura) Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. (/q4c86401e8e0f9143324043c1ae8cb8a1) Votes: 0 Liz Stanley (/author/Liz+Stanley) Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. (/q2c5bb5be2e985b3a35c7747ea73bea1b) Votes: 0 R. C. Sproul, Jr. (/author/R.+C.+Sproul%2C+Jr.) The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions. (/qf163cdf32f860f5802afee5671d552d8) Votes: 0 Hunter S. Thompson (/author/Hunter+S.+Thompson) I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions. (/qaea79846527f267d54ade2e4d7206e20) Votes: 0 Kenny Werner (/author/Kenny+Werner) No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life. (/qa813585b90723321297be80717ed98f9) Votes: 0 Archibald Marwizi (/author/Archibald+Marwizi) What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. (/q81a96c46303d5c84c9202422e0864c69) Votes: 0 Donald C. Peattie (/author/Donald+C.+Peattie) Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. (/q0fc3c2dad4b6fb935e881143c435f4bc) Votes: 0 Gilbert Murray (/author/Gilbert+Murray) And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. (/qac0b050ca2f95e1cedf03dc13b58845b) Votes: 0 Soren Kierkegaard (/author/Soren+Kierkegaard) In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs. (/qb485e760071a27daaa671ebb68dd07a2) Votes: 0 Gretchen Rubin (/author/Gretchen+Rubin) When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. (/qc2a6a16ce05ad25c3acb46b5061ef6c2) Votes: 0 Lawrence M. Krauss (/author/Lawrence+M.+Krauss) Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. (/q4dda6454fc5c9cda3976663ee950662f) Votes: 0
Frank P. Ramsey (/author/Frank+P.+Ramsey) Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. (/q4dda6454fc5c9cda3976663ee950662f) Votes: 0
Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/author/Frank+Plumpton+Ramsey) So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these. (/q49b3202922b2cab802d2f2799474b374) Votes: 0 Michael Emerson (/author/Michael+Emerson) Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy. (/qfb1ac1f377a52e548f7a63754d58f94c) Votes: 0 Bertrand Russell (/author/Bertrand+Russell) Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. (/q30b1be4b8acee83bd9e796552f89ae18) Votes: 0 David Jeremiah (/author/David+Jeremiah) Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. (/q21f2c028f01799277524fe040a557d89) Votes: 0 Edward H. Levi (/author/Edward+H.+Levi) I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. (/qf93db81b637c2459853a1cbf4d17347b) Votes: 0 Robert Delaunay (/author/Robert+Delaunay) Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive selfimage make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will! (/qe5940b59cc2cf20136a9c30599c5a9b0) Votes: 0 Israelmore Ayivor (/author/Israelmore+Ayivor) I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress! (/q8fea19f1b8fc9cabdba6b75f46943de1) Votes: 0 Kola Boof (/author/Kola+Boof) A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. (/qd292f01dbeb2180eb45102a73c7c1877) Votes: 0
Ezra Pound (/author/Ezra+Pound) I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do. (/q2ecfb11b0eb1072d96bba653b0776e78) Votes: 0 Faith Hill (/author/Faith+Hill) Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself. (/qcca743aa64bd3bf23a1b08675f05b5c7) Votes: 0 Gianni Vattimo (/author/Gianni+Vattimo) With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you. (/qd458532800efe588fba8d916b94c9c1a) Votes: 0 Evan Rachel Wood (/author/Evan+Rachel+Wood) The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality. (/qc695aa470fa64146ad180c685646974e) Votes: 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton (/author/Gilbert+K.+Chesterton) In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else. (/q79ed7c6052097719db639332ef48b234) Votes: 0 Ludovico Einaudi (/author/Ludovico+Einaudi) Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love. (/qee88a23455f6e9fa408b6a6815ae6602) Votes: 0 Paulo Coelho (/author/Paulo+Coelho) Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony. (/q7e91fb87b9c51831818c64437050ad97) Votes: 0 Gino Severini (/author/Gino+Severini) Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all. (/q359408be445fe01b452d69a3895278e6) Votes: 0 Muhammad Yunus (/author/Muhammad+Yunus) I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men. (/qd1cf5669610042d5d66cbabf4e0d1765) Votes: 0
Collier Schorr (/author/Collier+Schorr) It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important. (/q9a63e6a1496166c3c466ec7dc389702e) Votes: 0 Ingrid Newkirk (/author/Ingrid+Newkirk) We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. (/qf7a5897da78f99528cdfa2fe4cf99a68) Votes: 0 Ernest Istook (/author/Ernest+Istook) A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine. (/qcd10a320f50c6256b50054fd144a1f34) Votes: 0 Fred Brooks (/author/Fred+Brooks) If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. (/q81c3319507f29f379b0191fa10914314) Votes: 0 John Fowles (/author/John+Fowles) The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning. (/q8f19a1fb7fb11deaa24acc0e812ba34b) Votes: 0 Thomas Hobbes (/author/Thomas+Hobbes) I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. (/qa7349827ea983fbf420ba3b15cd9869f) Votes: 0 Sheri S. Tepper (/author/Sheri+S.+Tepper) Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions. (/qb151301774976463f8cb6530d15aa5b6) Votes: 0 Georg Cantor (/author/Georg+Cantor) Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own. (/qda95ff8595c113753bb4003014233ed5) Votes: 0 Anthony Marra (/author/Anthony+Marra) I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or leftwing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that. (/q573c055dd7427ddbc358d5c89bd44696) Votes: 0 Gary Numan (/author/Gary+Numan) The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different. (/q6b0a37ff53fdaecca322c35a999f8dfb) Votes: 0 Ram Dass (/author/Ram+Dass) It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole. (/q8d46dbef764c035426cefe5bbde1fe92) Votes: 0 Nick Hornby (/author/Nick+Hornby) To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions. (/q52d651ef5644aca02b5196ac063a93ea) Votes: 0 David Abram (/author/David+Abram) There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit. (/qbbe4d4bd620f52f5e3f71f5368ef3db4) Votes: 0 Eric Greitens (/author/Eric+Greitens) To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. (/q4c6d5065c3dc9e26d6cdbfd31c400b62) Votes: 0 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (/author/Frederick+Lindemann%2C+1st+Viscount+Cherwell) To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. (/q4c6d5065c3dc9e26d6cdbfd31c400b62) Votes: 0 Frederick Lenz (/author/Frederick+Lenz) The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again (/q41a28046bd5625fce71f93e06260b5d2) Votes: 0 Maxine Hong Kingston (/author/Maxine+Hong+Kingston) At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions. (/qb49745224ba3a3f727ead29826671e94) Votes: 0 James A. Baldwin (/author/James+A.+Baldwin) I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another. (/q6fbc5db62f93394407ba126004542e73) Votes: 0 Tom DeLonge (/author/Tom+DeLonge) Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth". (/q2a06cd7ff652055258c357e3d68655dc) Votes: 0 bell hooks (/author/bell+hooks) One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions. (/qd3a6cec1df760f43b7455b98b9136af8) Votes: 0
T. E. Hulme (/author/T.+E.+Hulme) A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading. (/q3e9b2242215b57373127e60022f4478a) Votes: 0 Blaise Pascal (/author/Blaise+Pascal) Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects. (/q3f0c19b547b085f59b018ac2bc4e4b5f) Votes: 0 Jasper Johns (/author/Jasper+Johns) What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. (/qb6cf3652dd3b8b6e50fa67bda3252cfd) Votes: 0 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (/author/Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg) Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in. (/q4ee002be0a53d31d9572218182e53968) Votes: 0 William P. Young (/author/William+P.+Young) Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in. (/q4ee002be0a53d31d9572218182e53968) Votes: 0 Wm. Paul Young (/author/Wm.+Paul+Young) What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. (/qb6cf3652dd3b8b6e50fa67bda3252cfd) Votes: 0 Georg C. Lichtenberg (/author/Georg+C.+Lichtenberg) The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture-not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either. (/qc687abc710ebd727daee649d6f7dd44e) Votes: 0 Ron Brackin (/author/Ron+Brackin) I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine. (/qde4260964f9dd7d7956de86b6ea08417) Votes: 0 Barack Obama (/author/Barack+Obama) The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality. (/qdd7a8ebe281b38f046d1e57dedbf4b0b) Votes: 0 Quentin Smith (/author/Quentin+Smith) One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations. (/q7ba771310e7eb3b6b87fed458c8b28ba) Votes: 0 Herbert Marcuse (/author/Herbert+Marcuse) You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you. (/qf2627e49def7298cfb29c437b15fe243) Kelly Carlin-McCall (/author/Kelly+Carlin-McCall) We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. (/q6e998c6a43e6f4396c2ee35f233faa82) Carl von Clausewitz (/author/Carl+von+Clausewitz) we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action. (/q877dd19d853b5c8422fc9d8d89644b97) Elizabeth Janeway (/author/Elizabeth+Janeway) Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody. (/qc928a83124c0b9f613a57e3e910f4127) Ada Yonath (/author/Ada+Yonath) To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end. (/q152ef2d56dd4e1ac74977239dc57a0ea) Thomas Hobbes (/author/Thomas+Hobbes) I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language. (/q3594962ce96805f5c24acc0478c45ebc) William Stafford (/author/William+Stafford) We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves. (/q2de1ad75024408bb250f69ee3cfacfaf) Sarah Dessen (/author/Sarah+Dessen) If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules. (/q7d5fa088146e4f698d8f6041b39fcca8) Julian Assange (/author/Julian+Assange) Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. (/q525e74c8c3003db2f8bdabdbf4264311) James F. Cooper (/author/James+F.+Cooper) All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else. (/q007e77a60d58ff4f741ec91c232d46f1) J.R. Ward (/author/J.R.+Ward) Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions. (/q07569ecfec410fca49dfa286308f56be) Frank Herbert (/author/Frank+Herbert) In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing. (/qf5a3cf767cbc9bf0b4e2230e6bece697) Ralph Waldo Emerson (/author/Ralph+Waldo+Emerson) I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings. (/q5841e3e6590ee9d02c09d3eed9d9ef24) Gloria E. Anzaldúa (/author/Gloria+E.+Anzald%C3%83%C2%BAa) A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. (/qa4dad41e3201703fb262433468674f3a) Edith Wharton (/author/Edith+Wharton) I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore. (/q512c8c001b20e62a678fd7320831bdd9) Artie Shaw (/author/Artie+Shaw) Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age. (/q76ccfa7dc4399fe1c1de265f00ae75ec) Kay Boyle (/author/Kay+Boyle) If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control. (/q0dabbbfa18e7b22d1820a73a473fe2c4) Freda Adler (/author/Freda+Adler) We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes. (/qb6552e45e3eac738b1c3e0c8cd250d60) I. A. Richards (/author/I.+A.+Richards) If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. (/q55fa5dff2aefba31294b343b0ea84c1d) Vladimir Nabokov (/author/Vladimir+Nabokov) Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract. (/qb03b01144921d8e99595e0a95d979358) Chuck D (/author/Chuck+D) Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term. (/qe64057c904c9a04d989c3eb8e7c9804c) Richard Whately (/author/Richard+Whately) We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world. (/q15275fc1a524373085560d361c2d7035) Noam Chomsky (/author/Noam+Chomsky) All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought. (/q2681ddee9760192e706f3db2a37f9452) Paolo Bacigalupi (/author/Paolo+Bacigalupi) Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological . (/q0aaa9e98b7d146bc8580dce9cb125527) Peter J. Carroll (/author/Peter+J.+Carroll) There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one. (/q4d87e97ab88182028ef70cbf78f5ac60) Samuel Butler (/author/Samuel+Butler)
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge. (/qfee533e8b25f2d4c2fac36f8de14de31) Ambrose Bierce (/author/Ambrose+Bierce) The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language. (/q5cf5b476a53c5df9dbb305df0dc13deb) Anton Chekhov (/author/Anton+Chekhov) I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us. (/q8ee5cd913953d6c74fd7b1d7e53bb8ec) Smith Wigglesworth (/author/Smith+Wigglesworth) Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love. (/qccd9601f7f98ffc65cf059b9f77d7300) Jose Saramago (/author/Jose+Saramago) And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning. (/q6177caf9ab4e953744b46f7998923162) Thomas Hobbes (/author/Thomas+Hobbes) Boarding-House Geometry DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS All boarding-houses are the same boarding-house. Boarders in the same boarding-house and on the same flat are equal to one another. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. The landlady of a boarding-house is a" (/q234031415b80ec86446078e06865e906) Stephen Leacock (/author/Stephen+Leacock) ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro slavery and anti - women. (/qeb7d8d83c1ee681d87a76f8fb0219412) John Shelby Spong (/author/John+Shelby+Spong) Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art. (/qeaa29d93cbf2320ae8405f2ff80317ca) Douglas Crimp (/author/Douglas+Crimp) Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions. (/q79157b41cbbe9b77a9777b51b8677ee5) Brian Froud (/author/Brian+Froud) The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits. (/q243b7100b416753e0fa3fabaa6834383) Benjamin Tucker (/author/Benjamin+Tucker) While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach. (/q0c69638c29c42158580d0489d9c052e2) Albert Einstein (/author/Albert+Einstein) Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. (/qc9329550bafdd0fd2d5b211060a95660) Donella Meadows (/author/Donella+Meadows) More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends. (/q80b562145ab222e5f68cadae9d4265f7) David Berlinski (/author/David+Berlinski) We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women. (/q27ac711b645cabdf857f853c8168c814) Abraham Maslow (/author/Abraham+Maslow) Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on. If this happens, the credibility of the international process for addressing climate change will be at risk. (/q9fcb45d4924a179cfc55c3e3d3d0afcb) Henry Sylvester Jacoby (/author/Henry+Sylvester+Jacoby) It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system. (/q046431e5779d105c0db34b13517df603) Stephanie Strickland (/author/Stephanie+Strickland) Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men. (/q027a3164c8691c499e434eab2dd40de5) Marilyn Frye (/author/Marilyn+Frye) The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality. (/qd5f851d36ad22e0495295cd5a0b27331) Evelyn Underhill (/author/Evelyn+Underhill) There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology. (/qbab261e8b866c3271d4a97b36f792dd5) Laurence Meyer (/author/Laurence+Meyer) Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser. (/q95197fd5bd3d2e7c8a19b67eb789b9fd) Stephen Colbert (/author/Stephen+Colbert) Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed. (/qe375c56d0216d0c1cce33bda49ae7879) Robert Anton Wilson (/author/Robert+Anton+Wilson) The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these enabled designs so reflective of an ever-changing world where contextual factors and technological resources are shifting definitions of architecture, design, and the traditional boundaries between disciplines. (/q70479918ee75d09c8bb14a1c492fd6df) Dror Benshetrit (/author/Dror+Benshetrit)
Word definitions (18 quotes) (/word+definitions) In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. (/q23dfc6f4629e25dd949f1438b28af3fb) Votes: 1 Alan Perlis (/author/Alan+Perlis)
Wrong definitions (36 quotes) (/wrong+definitions) Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will! (/qe5940b59cc2cf20136a9c30599c5a9b0) Votes: 3 Israelmore Ayivor (/author/Israelmore+Ayivor)
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