Defined Quotes - Page 17

• The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

  John Sculley

  Communication, Technology, Iphone

  Interview with Chris Brennan, medium.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

  Aristotle

  Mean, May, Persuasion

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Light, Fax Machines

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• Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

  Paul Schrader

  White, Quality, Noir

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• I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

  Nicki Minaj

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

  Athol Fugard

  Artist, Years, Democracy

  "Playwright Fugard Bucked South Africa's 'Racist Ideas'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 1, 2012.

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• Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion

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• . . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

  John Green

  Ideas, Strange, Universe

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• Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

  Bill Drayton

  Successful, Organization, Working Together

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• Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Believe, School, Media

  "Your Social Score Is the New Credit Score" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

  George M. Whitesides

  Together, Connections, Atoms

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• For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.  Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

  John Bonifaz

  Rights, Years, Citizens United

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• Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

  Jonas Salk

  Wise, Judgment, Capacity

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• I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to find similarities in life, no matter what it is so they're going to try to put you in a box with other African-American quarterbacks - Vick, Newton, Randall Cunningham, Warren MoonThat's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

  Robert Griffin III

  America, Goal, Trying

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• The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Men, Criminals, Crime

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• A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
  current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
  is a master key to stress-free productivity.

  David Allen

  Stress, Keys, Lists

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.102, Penguin

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• Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

  Christopher Logue

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• Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

  Amy Plum

  Black And White, World, Life Is

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• Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Believe, Government

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• A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enemy, Identity, Groups

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Live Life, Balls

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, People, Pay

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.

  William Hazlitt

  Laughter, Feelings, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.2

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• Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

  James A. Baldwin

  May, Definitions, Way

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