Quotes About Definition

We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes.

We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser.

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

How you define an event produces emotionand determines how you feel going forward

if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: "I want to live a life like everybody else!" By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.

When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful every time other people talk about their success.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

There was in me confusion between love and devotion. I thought all my acts were acts of love, yielding up of the self, the personal. But I did feel hurt that they were all willing to immolate me, and felt unloved according to my own definition of love: sacrifice.

who says dog means dog?

We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.

It is my experience that the hard numbers are the ones that lie. The matters that they describe cannot be defined so clearly. The most accurate statement that can be made on the frequency of depression is that it occurs often and, directly or indirectly, affects the lives of everyone. It

It's clear that identity is a finite concept. What's not clear is the location of its boundaries.

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis n. [mass noun] an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.

Admit I find everything strange and foreign. She finds a metaphor for her condition without defining it. It is my concern for happiness that cause me the most anguish. She now used him to perform her own tragedy for herself.

Despite how impressive many of my teachers were, they were undoubtedly human and susceptible to the same cultural biases and physical infirmities that define the lives of ordinary people.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

AMURCOSITY  (AMURCO'SITY)   n.s.[amurca, Lat.]The quality of lees or mother of any thing.

The existence of the twilight does not mean we cannot distinguish the day from the night.

To ABATE [only in 1755 edition] (ABATE)   [in horsemanship.] A horse is said to abate or take down his curvets; when working upon curvets, he puts his two hind-legs to the ground both at once, and observes the same exactness in all the times.Dict.   

ALKALI  (A'LKALI)   n.s.[The word alkali comes from an herb, called by the Egyptians kali; by us glasswort.] This

I like things to be clearly defined. Trouble brews when the lines are blurred. When people don't know where they stand.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby