Quotes by Defining Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny. Oprah Winfrey defining destiny people Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. Paul Begala debate defining winning An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution. Peter Drucker defining important way What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description. R. D. Laing description defining understanding Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining. Ravi Zacharias holiness defining moments I don't think there was one. I can't name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud. Ric Flair defining names thinking English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. Robert A. Heinlein english-language nervous defining It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees. Robert Dessaix woods defining tree No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. Robert M. Hensel disability who-we-are defining Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself. Robert M. Pirsig defining quality world One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. Robert Silverberg nonsensical defining extravagance Beating John Landy was my defining race. Roger Bannister defining race The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time. Salil Shetty privacy defining issues The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment. Rush Limbaugh constitution defining citizens 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 Simon R. Green defining likes losing What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Stanislaw Ulam exactly-is defining mathematics There has been one defining production for me in each decade. Stephen Daldry has-beens defining productions Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Stephen R. Donaldson characteristics futility-of-life defining Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret. Stephen Tobolowsky defining regret character No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament". Stephen Jay Gould mixtures defining facts «12345»
