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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.
The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.
When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.
I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.
Our definition of the alt-right is younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to be the definition of loving our neighbour.
The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.
For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.
The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.
From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.
I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we're reaching for is tolerance.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.
The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.
My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
