I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.
Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.
I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Speaking to people in all parts of the country, it has become clear to me that there is a definite appetite for the option to reject Theresa May's Brexit and hold a referendum.
Retaining our capacity for reason
is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.
TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
Yeah, I cut class...I got a D.
Cause History meant nothing to me
Except a definite nap.
That's why I always sat in the back.
But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
If anything, I was the definite edge of the spear into The Attitude Era, I believe, so it was way before its time, the stuff I was doing, and it kind of set the tone for what was to come.
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.
The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.
I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
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