Quotes About Definition

All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.

It's amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.

To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we don't know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.

To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we do not know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.

It is through the process of defining what we want as a town that we are becoming a real community. It is through the act of participation that we change.

Movement, growth, change, catabolism. Could music exist without passage, without progression, or poetry; could you speak a word and call it a rhyme without speaking more words? Could life exist … why, passage is very nearly a definition for life! A living thing changes by the moment and by each portion of each part of a moment; even when it sickens, even when it decays, it changes, and when it stops changing, it's—

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

It's all black and white to you, isn't it?" "Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.

Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves. "Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

I've never been nonplussed before but I know the definition and I imagine this must be what it feels like. It's not quite flummoxed, or bewildered. Words have subtle nuances. A year or two ago I might have been flabbergasted. This is a slightly different kind of stymied. Yes. I think it's nonplussed.

Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.

there is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)

Gregory Mankiw's widely used contemporary textbook, Principles of Economics, the definition has become even more concise. 'Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources,' it declares—erasing the question of ends or goals from the page altogether.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?" (Editorial, The Times , 22 July 1853)

The materialists, or some of them, would have us believe that the brain produces thoughts as an organ secretes fluids; this is to overlook What constitutes the very essence of thought, namely the materially unexplainable miracle of subjectivity: as if the cause of consciousness - immaterial and non-spatial by definition - could be a material object.