Quotes About Definition

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It's in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Believe in your purposes. Define yourself endlessly.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.