Defined Quotes - Page 26

• Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

  Gillo Dorfles

  Attitude, Emotional, Kitsch

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• Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.

  Matei Calinescu

  Lying, May, Kitsch

  Matei Călinescu (1987). “Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism”, p.229, Duke University Press

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• Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Enemy, About Yourself, Register

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• It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

  Ani DiFranco

  Reading, People, Worry

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

  Albert Einstein

  Half, Problem

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• The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.

  Lauren Artress

  Simple, Soul, Labyrinth

  Lauren Artress (1996). “Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice”, p.74, Penguin

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• In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

  Thomas Szasz

  Animal, People, World

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• Define yourself or be defined.

  Antero Alli

  Define Yourself

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• ...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Light, Justice

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• Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Pressure, Messages

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

  Marion G. Romney

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.

  Tom Peters

  Clients

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• Customer relationships are defined by customers.

  Jim Sterne

  Customer Relationship, Customers

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• Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Men, Energy

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.203

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

  Mario Daniel Vega

  Fall, Decision, Leader

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• The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

  Mona Charen

  Character, Self, Entitlement

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

  Walter E. Williams

  Father, War, Government

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• It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

  Johnny Depp

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

  Amartya Sen

  Moon, Opportunity, Libertarian

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite?

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Ideas, Regulation, Way

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• The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

  Brian Tracy

  Creativity, Goal, Natural

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• Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

  Mary Wigman

  Character, Night, Ideas

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• The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christ, Crux, Crosses

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2015

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