Top 1200 Defining Myself Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

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

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

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

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

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

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I sing to myself more than anything. I'm always chastising myself, telling myself to be better, or comforting myself.

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

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it's because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I'm holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that's going to translate to people like me.

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

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

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

I feel like, in the Czars, for example, I was afraid. I couldn't express myself. I didn't have a connection to myself. That's one of the huge reasons why it was such a difficult existence. I put a lot of that on myself. I couldn't access myself. I couldn't look at myself, because I was too ashamed.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

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

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

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

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

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

Fighting Anderson Silva was a signature and career-defining moment that was stolen from me.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's how I managed to pull myself together, over the years, checking myself from the outside.

My defining moment was when I finally went to Cannes and saw my name along with international filmmakers.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

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

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

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

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Demonetisation was a defining moment in the government's war on corruption and black money.

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

'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

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

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

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."