Quotes About Definition

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Oh, Mom, what's 'normal' mean, anyway? 'Normal' is whatever we make it.

because she couldn't write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn

Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.

Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.

I have these boundaries in place not for restriction but to define the parameters of my freedom. My brokenness can't handle more freedom than this right now. And I'm good with that.

In 2016, "Fascism" was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except "surreal," which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.

Victims? Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice. That sounds like an excellent definition of man.

DEFINITION 1-2. The set S has a topology (or is topologized) provided that, for every point p in S and every subset X of S, the question "Is p a limit point of X?" can be answered.

A whole world of horror is contained in the process of definition.

Definition implies subordination.

Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.

Representation involves definition, exclusion, separation.

So that's what it means to be a nonpracticing homosexual, I thought: it means I don't know what I am!

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

It can only be true love when it last forever...it takes forever to define true love.

Your life will begin to improve when you define precisely what improvement means to you. The agonies and frustrations will start to ease only when you have something real and positive to replace them with. Be specific.

There's no meaning of life, it's nothing that can be defined. It's a matter of writing your own definition.

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself and create your own sunshine.

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.

When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist