Defined Quotes - Page 15

• The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

  William Matthews

  Titles, Purpose, May

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• Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Problem, Depends, Solutions

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• The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

  Angela Davis

  Class, Empowerment, Process

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.9, Vintage

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• the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.

  Barbara Deming

  Christian, Jesus, Love You

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

  Jenny Lawson

  Want, Who We Are, Today

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• I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Sex

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• You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Islands, Shapes

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• As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Sustainability, Climate Change, Premium

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• Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

  Starhawk

  Stories, Actors, World

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• Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, Path, Adults

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?

  Joshua Fernandez

  Pain, Leader, World

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• CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

  Robert Haugen

  Identity, Use, Way

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 2, Estimating Expected Return with the Theories of Modern Finance, p. 16, 1999.

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• We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Males, Spotlight, Able

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• Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

  Nadya Suleman

  Believe, Choices, Our Actions

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• Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

  Ove Arup

  Art, Engineering, Imagination

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• ... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Appreciation, Caring, Organization

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• I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.

  Gwen Raverat

  People, Definitions

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd

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• men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

  Dale Spender

  Real, Men, Cake

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• Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

  Charlene Li

  Leadership, People, Position

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• Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Freedom, Guarantees, Today

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.

  Tom Atlee

  Integrity, Fabric Of Life, Design

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• The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Home, Rights

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fashion, Distance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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