Top 667 Defining Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.
Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
I listen to a lot of artists like Tori Amos, Cherry Glazerr, and Patti Smith, and I kind of wanted to follow in their footsteps, or at least try to be that genre-defining.
More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.
The Nazis hijacked the Jewish thing early on by defining it as 'the Jewish problem' and started looking for a solution. These are not just words.
Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.
As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.
Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.
In the life of any country, the most defining moment is the creation of the country itself.
I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.
For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.
I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.
One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.
I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.
At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my life and determined the type of leader that I would become.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.
In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.
The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.
