A Quote by Walt Whitman

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
American - Poet
May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Katie Leclerc

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

Big Show

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Kevin Costner

I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.

Christie Brinkley

I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.

Sidney Lumet

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Donatella Versace

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

Todd Haynes

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

Ndamukong Suh

At every club I have been at I have had a test in the first few weeks from the big players at the club. At that moment you define your success at that club, you either win the group or you lose the group.

Carlos Carvalhal

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

Mawra Hocane

I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.

Santan Dave

You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.

Ginni Rometty

I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.