Quotes About Definition

the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what associated next-action steps are required.

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what "done" means (outcome) and (2) what "doing" looks like (action). And these are far from self-evident for most people about most things that have their attention.

If you're not totally sure what your job is, it will always feel overwhelming.

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?

By simple definition. Every telling creates and limits and defines.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

William Shakespeare

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

a word we make to mean whatever we want it to mean. Spirituality, Eugene averred, was "Christ, the God-revealing Christ, who is behind and in all of this living.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.

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

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Elk ding is een woord

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?

I always give names to things

Perhaps Mahalia, like Paul Celan, has already lived all our lives for us. Perhaps that is the definition of genius. Hegel says, "Each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who is better merely expresses this same world better than the others.

Le mot 'chat' signifie 'la chose blanche qui ronronne' (lors du cours sur la Métaphysique des Espèces Naturelles, Collège de France 2013-2014)