Defining Quotes - Page 17

• In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

  James Arthur Ray

  Two, Choices, Defining Moments

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• Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

  Douglas Bloch

  Self, Anxiety, Pressure

  Douglas Bloch (1999). “When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression”, p.17, BookBaby

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• The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, People, Democracy

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.145, Temple University Press

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• Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter.

  David Slade

  Believe, Long, People

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• I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

  Edgar Schein

  Roles, Term, Position

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• Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

  Daphne Guinness

  Fashion, Political, Revolution

  Interview with Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

  James Gleick

  Children, Play, Outlook On Life

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mixtures, Facts, Born

  "The Lying Stones of Marrakech". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W", p. 281, 2001.

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• Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Assertive, Active

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• Music is a defining element of character.

  Plato

  Music, Character, Elements

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• People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

  Michael Nesmith

  Real, People, Understanding

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

  Mark Batterson

  Decision, Different, Different Life

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• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

  Terence McKenna

  Cutting, Years, Stupidity

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• Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

  Kenneth Cole

  Men, Want, Clean

  FaceBook post by Kenneth Cole from Apr 28, 2012

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• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  Sebastian Thrun

  Real, Knights, Self

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• We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

  John Bevere

  Book, Tests, Defining Moments

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2014

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• One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

  Roger Ebert

  Actors, Defining Moments, Film

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

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• Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Holiness, Moments, Goodness

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Responsibility, People, Use

  David C. Korten (2010). “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Intelligence

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Leaving

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• Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

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• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  Halle Berry

  Knowing, Firsts, Steps

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