Defining Quotes - Page 18

• Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

  Devon Aoki

  Real, People, Giving

  "Supermodel Devon Aoki Beefed Up By Training With 30-Pound Gun". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2009.

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• The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Management

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• All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.
  Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Commitment, Heart, Ignorance

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 04, 2015

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• English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nervous, English Language, Sentiments

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

  Arsenio Hall

  Jobs, Parent, Would Be

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.

  Albert Einstein

  Six, Impossible, Management

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• Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, New Earth, Define Yourself

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.12, Penguin

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• If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

  Tony Snow

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, Agency, Giving

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• Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

  Paul Bloom

  Men, Animal, Sticks

  Paul Bloom (2011). “How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like”, p.52, Random House

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• For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

  Charley Pride

  Confidence, Self, Doubt

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Mind, Awful, Scripture

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “Sovereignty of God”, p.225, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Power Of Now, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.76, Penguin

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• Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

  Robert Benchley

  Work, Humor, People

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• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

  Terence McKenna

  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

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• When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Confusion, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.66, Penguin

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• I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Matter, Individual

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• We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Liars, Hero, Character

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• History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

  Ken Burns

  Past, History, Who We Are

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• All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Vision, Principles

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 21, 2011

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• A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

  Donna Brazile

  Vision, Campaigns, Opponents

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• Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.

  Neel Burton

  Thinking, Self, Reflecting Upon

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

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• There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspiring, Graduation, Beautiful

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