Top 667 Defining Quotes & Sayings

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

WrestleMania is an experience. It's an overall ride, its ups and its downs and its curves and its music. It's presentation, and it's emotion, and it's paying tribute to the past and progressing the product into the future. It's career-defining moments for people who live for career-defining moments.

There are many defining moments in my journey.

I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian systems, the government is really more active in defining treatment, goals and defining health priorities. The German system is a competitive system with little government intervention. The price for this is that the government cannot set a health agenda. And the Scandinavian systems have little competition, so you often do have waiting lists. But on the other hand, you then have the government which can push for prevention.

As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?

'Be Cool' was a defining movie for me.

Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

People are remembered for defining moments in their career.

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

2020 is going to be a defining year for streamers.

There's an old saying - you'll never hit a target you can't see. Defining a Creative Challenge is an important step in focusing your creativity toward a specific problem or opportunity. A Creative Challenge can be something big such as a revolutionary new product or a cure for disease. However, it can also be much smaller such as a new package design or an efficiency gain in a manufacturing process. It starts with clearly defining the challenge and desired outcome.

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

Music is a defining element of character.

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

World Cups can be career-defining.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

Resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Defining success is an ongoing challenge.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

All I want is the defining moment.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.