Top 1200 Defining Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.

I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.

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

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

We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think.

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

Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

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

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

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

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

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

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

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

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

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

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

We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in-formation.

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

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

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

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

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

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

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

The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And that's why I believe that manufacturing is critical. If we can't feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and fight for ourselves, we can't be free.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

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

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