Words matter. These are the best Defines Quotes from famous people such as Michael J. Knowles, Diego Luna, Nora Ephron, Douglas Coupland, Frances Hesselbein, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Culture’ and ‘cult’ derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.
I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they’re going to be.
I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you’ve had children with someone you’re divorced from, divorce defines everything; it’s the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
The nicest characters in ‘A Week in December’ are, in fact, Muslims – and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.
The world defines ‘waste’ very differently than Jesus does.
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world’s first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Music is life. Music defines peoples’ experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn’t punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, ‘Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?’ I avoid the trap of easy definition.
Unlike Marxism, the Leninist one-party state is not a philosophy. It is a mechanism for holding power. It works because it clearly defines who gets to be the elite – the political elite, the cultural elite, the financial elite.
If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don’t want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.
We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.
Straight couples don’t have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn’t compulsory and its absence doesn’t invalidate a marriage.
I don’t think there’s anything that defines WrestleMania more than Hulk Hogan and The Rock standing across from each other and the crowd going ballistic.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there’s no connection.
What defines a Western? I’ve probably seen three my whole life.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
I still haven’t made a film that defines who I am.
I have learned that track doesn’t define me. My faith defines me. I’m running because I have been blessed with a gift.
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
A liberal to me is one who – and it suits some of the dictionary definitions – is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It’s not the only thing that defines you.
The idea that all we have is everything that’s come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, ‘Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?’
It’s our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That’s what at the end of the day defines us.
I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents’ music, they break from the radio and MTV – at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn’t really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.
My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for ‘Irreversible.’ The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas.
In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
I must be very clear in one thing… Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
Being a geek is a great thing. I think we’re all geeks. Being a geek means you’re passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.
What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don’t see me as a little girl.
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you’ve taken your passion, and you’ve turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Kanye West – he’s all over the place, and I think he defines what an artist is because none of his work is the same, and he’s into what he’s into.
That’s what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.
Where you are defines what you’re interested in.
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it’s clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren’t very virtuous.
I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you’ll know exactly who directed it. I don’t have that skill.
My faith is what defines me as a person, that is who I am.
What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.
‘Stupidity’ defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we’ve never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we’ve never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don’t feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like I’m much more defined by my family and other things in life that, that I feel are much deeper to me.
A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
I’m a Christian, I’m a servant of God first. Not a fighter anymore, first. I also have a family so that comes before fighting. Fighting, it’s my sport that I’m passionate about, it’s a career, it’s how I provide for my family. But it’s not what defines who I am.
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
What defines loneliness is our internal comfort level.
Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It’s a responsibility rather than a technique.
You don’t realize how much a dog’s presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
