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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.
You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.
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.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.
We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
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.
The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.
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.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.
and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.
I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.
What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
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.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.