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Image of Toni Morrison
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
- Toni Morrison
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Image of Steve McCurry
The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.
- Steve McCurry
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Image of Thomas Reid
A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.
- Thomas Reid
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Image of Mary E. Pearson
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
- Mary E. Pearson
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Image of Sheri S. Tepper
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.
- Sheri S. Tepper
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Image of Ellen Kushner
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?
- Ellen Kushner
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Image of Fay Weldon
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
- Fay Weldon
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Image of Ben Okri
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
- Ben Okri
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Image of Jim C. Hines
The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.
- Jim C. Hines
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Image of Maria Shriver
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.
- Maria Shriver
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Image of George Gaylord Simpson
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.
- George Gaylord Simpson
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Image of Benjamin Zander
I have a definition of success.
- Benjamin Zander
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Image of Mary T. Barra
My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.
- Mary T. Barra
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Image of Louis Fischer
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
- Louis Fischer
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Image of Anatol Rapoport
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
- Anatol Rapoport
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Image of Tony Hsieh
The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.
- Tony Hsieh
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Image of John Henry Patterson
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
- John Henry Patterson
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Image of Michael Kinsley
The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
- Michael Kinsley
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Image of Kelly McGonigal
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
- Kelly McGonigal
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Image of Brandi Carlile
I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.
- Brandi Carlile
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Image of Bill Gaede
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
- Bill Gaede
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Image of Kevin Harrington
By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.
- Kevin Harrington
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Image of Johann Baptist Metz
The shortest definition of religion: interruption.
- Johann Baptist Metz
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Image of Graham McTavish
I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.
- Graham McTavish
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Image of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Image of Esther Dyson
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
- Esther Dyson
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Image of Bonnie St. John
My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.
- Bonnie St. John
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Image of Robert W. Floyd
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
- Robert W. Floyd
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Image of Talal Asad
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
- Talal Asad
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Image of Mircea Eliade
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
- Mircea Eliade
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Image of Rands
A milestone is less date and more definition.
- Rands
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Image of Kenny Werner
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
- Kenny Werner
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Image of George Vecsey
Every championship, by definition, is historic.
- George Vecsey
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Image of Jim Boeheim
If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
- Jim Boeheim
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Image of Jackie Kennedy
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
- Jackie Kennedy
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Image of Ed Droste
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
- Ed Droste
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Image of Kenneth Lacovara
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
- Kenneth Lacovara
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Image of Ernest Sosa
There isn't a formal definition of success.
- Ernest Sosa
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Image of John D'Agata
In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.
- John D'Agata
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Image of Charles Sanders Peirce
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Image of Orson Welles
My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
- Orson Welles
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Image of Anthony Marra
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.
- Anthony Marra
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Image of Bharati Mukherjee
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.
- Bharati Mukherjee
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Image of Edith Wharton
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.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Jose Bergamin
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
- Jose Bergamin
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Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Image of Edward Albee
Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
- Edward Albee
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Saul Bellow
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
- Saul Bellow
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