Quotes About Definition

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For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

2. Words Define Reality Words are like LEGO bricks: the more we add, the more we define the reality of our playset. The dog fucked the chicken tells us something. The Great Dane fucked the chicken tells us more. The Great Dane fucked the bucket of fried chicken on the roof of Old Man Dongweather's barn, barking with every thrust goes the distance and defines reality in a host of ways

The circumstance is fundamental to defining the job (and finding a solution for it), because the nature of the progress desired will always be strongly influenced by the circumstance.

although myth may be romanticized and woefully short of fact, it must, by definition, have some foundation in lost happenings.

Llamas a las cosas por otro nombre como si así combinaras lo que son. Pero eso no las convierte en verdad.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way.

I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

But love--as the male novelists define it--and who, after all, speak with greater authority?--has nothing whatever to do with kindness, fidelity, generosity, or poetry. Love is slipping off one's petticoat and--But we all know what love is.

Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it

Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.

By questioning conventional definitions of who can and should be the target buyer, companies can often see fundamentally new ways to unlock value.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Writing voice isn't as much a function of thinking as it is something that eludes definition and therefore assimilation.  The more artful flavors of prose are more often a function of intuition and imitation fused with heart and wit and delivered with a strong does of lyric sensibility. It

The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

pero nunca olvido una voz por mucho que cambie, y por muchos años que pasen. Una voz siempre tiene algo, un timbre, un tono, que la define como única.

Yet it was an odd twist of language. Based on the way people usually used the words, Christian was traight and Patrick was gay. But Christian, when he got wasted, was gay if you used the old-fashioned, oh-so-merry definition of the word, while Patrick was straight-edge because he didn't drink to the point of passing out.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.

and you're welcome to whatever you put a name to." Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly,

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.