Defining Quotes - Page 5

• I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

  Michael Beschloss

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and hiring for talent - not just knowledge and skills.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Skills, Keys, Becoming

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Body Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.

  Priti Patel

  Healing, Focus, Principles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through the early 1920s came here desiring to become Americans. They wanted to become part of what was a unique and distinct American culture. They were all coming from tyranny of one kind or another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, Differences, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Girl, Struggle, Artist

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

  David Weinberger

  Conversation

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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• Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

  George Lakoff

  Reality, Play, People

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Confusing, World

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• Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Memories, Distance

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• Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Desire, Add

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• Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

  Marc Kielburger

  Later In Life, People, Legacy

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
  took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.

  Larry Osborne

  Successful, Keys, Decision

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• If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

  Lance Armstrong

  Boys, Men, Characteristics

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.47, Random House

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• The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Citizens, Constitution, Amendments

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• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

  Serge Lang

  Negative, Hiv, Disease

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• Beating John Landy was my defining race.

  Roger Bannister

  Race

  "Interview Sir Roger Bannister". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2004.

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• Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Challenges, Energy, Poverty

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• I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

  Win Butler

  Emotional, Thinking, People

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• It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.

  Chris McCaughan

  Thinking, Play, Long

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• From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Hair, Self, Childhood

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

  Cass Sunstein

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

  Serena Williams

  Humble, Humility, Roots

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Ideas, Interesting, Voting

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