Defined Quotations | Page 4

In Being; God is not limited by love, but is rather defined by it.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Information technology plays such a critical role in the global economy, that a corporation's ability to compete in that economy is increasingly defined by its IT capabilities. Operating in this extended, multinational and multicultural environment places companies under greater pressure than ever to manage their ethical responsibilities. Businesses need to be thinking as much about how IT can be instrumental in promoting ethically sensitive and responsible business cultures and the positive outcomes that can be generated.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

I'm concerned about how the mission has changed. When we sent in the 2,000-plus soldiers it was defined as a reconstruction mission, but they're not reconstructing anymore.

If 'project' were defined too broadly, it would throw off the balance between protecting corporate secrets and protecting an employee's right to work.

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

If making the investment decision feels overwhelming, someone might not be included to make the savings decision. Part of the problem people now have is there are many more choices that they have to make. Before, it was a defined benefit plan, and you were done.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.

Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.

I'm just tired. I've gotten to the point where I fully realize now that the fans don't care. Caring being defined as not going to the games or turning off your TV set.

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

In this case, it's a stealth bull market. You can make money buying stocks of good, understandable businesses -- good being defined as good balance sheets, good rates of growth, good management, no off-balance-sheet financing. No nonsense.

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us, for it is the malady of the present age.

The Census Bureau was more inclined to define people the way they defined themselves rather than impose a label.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

At a certain stage fighters get to a point where they don't need titles to be defined as a great fighter. I think titles are a great thing to have, don't get me wrong. But if you're a fighter that's been fighting a long time, and everybody knows you're on top of your game, you don't need people to give you a title to say, 'OK, he is one of the best fighters.' All I'm saying is if you put the titles up there, I'll win the titles. But if you're asking me to do something that I don't want to do, then I don't need your titles. I want to be a fans' champions. I want to fight who the fans want to see me fight.

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

The bank has a well defined performance reward policy implemented through an efficient human resource development practice.

a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is nothing the states can do about it, nothing the people can do about it.

Davidson is a good, solid fundamental basketball team. We've got to take care of the basketball and (get it) to the right people. Everyone has got top players, but our team is defined by our strength inside and we have to make sure we get the ball to those people. At the same time, other people have to do their jobs and contribute.

You think about the guys who have been there the whole time and really defined the Miami Dolphins' defense... you think about Zach (Thomas), you think about Jason (Taylor) and you think about Sam. Sam was such a perfect fit under the press-and-go system under Jimmy. He was a guy that, just by his presence, made quarterbacks throw the other way.

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

I want to be a champion of African American work, but I'm defined by more than race,

The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It's not that these studies aren't valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as 'speeding.' In accident data, speeding is defined as both 'traveling faster than the posted limit' and 'traveling too fast for conditions.' Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.

That means we have to identify an appropriate area adjacent to a commercial plant defined for storage. Clearly if you can have your storage sites as close to the commercial plant as possible, that would be more optimal.

It's definitely pricey but people are willing to pay up for a company with well defined growth prospects, ... There are few companies out there that can command a multiple higher than other stocks because of their history of execution.

It will be a bill that will protect workers' pensions of the defined benefit variety,

They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those for whom they would give their blood.

In other words, Japan may now be in a technically defined recession.

I think 2000 will be defined by a flattish level of sales and a better product mix, ... I think that better product mix will feed through to better earnings for most of the major players in the U.S. auto industry.

Iraq's Kurds are an active part of Iraqi society... and Arabs consider them as brothers. The identity of Iraq cannot be defined in such terms,

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

If you want to think about airplanes that have defined the air age, this would have to be on the short list.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

We are defined by how we use our power.

He's taken a very personal interest and a fairly significant interest in the issue of human rights. He fundamentally believes the character of the North Korean regime is defined by its human rights conduct.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously: 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

I didn't know Gate well, but I always appreciated him, most of all, his feisty, independent spirit and warm heart, ... Gate was the original contrarian, but there was always a well thought-out argument behind it. It wasn't just that Gate was unwilling to play the fool. He simply refused to live up to anyone else's definition or expectations of him. But I think this was part of his genius. From the start, Gate defined himself, both as a musician and as a man.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

George Bush doesn't want on his watch to say that marriage, defined as the union of one man and one woman, was lost,

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

I never wish to be easily defined.

They were trying to pocket the money they weren't contributing to the defined benefit pension plan, and we called their bluff on it.

It's interesting that people are prepared to believe such odd things about us. Either we haven't really defined ourselves yet, or our fans are a little crazy.

It's clear that people currently working should factor into their retirement planning the long-term trend away from traditional defined benefit pensions. That means people need to be saving more than they are.

A quality season is defined by winning ugly games. When you're making all your shots and there is a flow, it's all there, it's easy for everybody. ... When you look back, a great season sometimes comes down to winning these games.

After Murrow, CBS made news much more corporate. They found a new type of journalist who defined the networks. It was now about the anchorman. From '62 to the present, the anchor was the key figure for network news.

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overwhelming pad, but it's a very defined shoulder.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.

AOL's (customer) base has been with AOL for a long time and has long-established relationships with people. Your online identity is defined by your e-mail address and online or screen name. AOL does community very well.

Sometimes when you spread things out, it becomes more defined for the quarterback as opposed to keeping people in.

So much of what defines culture is Language. Take Canada for example, francophones and anglophones are defined by their language.

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.

The French will want new rules that are broad enough to allow them to assert control over a wide range of firms in sectors defined as strategic, but narrow enough to win European approval and to assure investors from overseas of real influence over companies in which they take a stake.

The city was defined by timber and lumber and you could make a memorial to the forest-based industry -- the workers, the entrepreneurs and the innovators who helped build the city.

The Earth is slowing down. The Earth is spinning slower than it was when the international second was defined using atomic clocks, so we're losing time on those clocks.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

The film must be shot on 35 mm film and in Academy, which is a clearly defined format. But when you enter into a collective, you have to submit to the collective.

This has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. We have lost sales. We can't rent anymore. We're losing money every day. There is no end defined at this time.

These are optimistic times in the Middle East. The iron wall that has defined Israel's relations with most of the Arab and Muslim world for generations is coming down,

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

For a change, we actually have two candidates who have defined themselves, or are trying, as they go along. They don't fit into any classic pattern. They're appealing to more of a broad group, both of them.

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices.

For a period there, they defined the consumer-electronics space. They were the quintessential electronics. Their name personified quality. They were a heck of an innovator.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

It's the same story, year in and year out. You've got different factions; managers, advisers or promoters not wanting the other to get a leg up on them. But it's got to change. For the health, integrity and growth of our industry, we need a clearly defined heavyweight champion.

It's making us look at the way we can preserve the history of the coast. We've lost major character-defining buildings. These were buildings that defined the community.

It really helps to have defined roles, and we don't really have that now,

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

As a child, a great day is defined by what you get. As an adult a great day is defined by what you give.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

They have clear objectives, well defined and clear to all stakeholders who are pursuing these objectives systematically.

They generally defined what these moves would be and some general targets to reach, but we're far from complete with the details, It looks like they got barely enough.

They have a very defined strategy for success at these games.

They have a very defined strategy for success at these games. They'll focus on sports where they've traditionally been strong, then they'll look to pick up opportunities in sports where they can, and maybe take a few medals from us in track and field and swimming. If you look at it, it's a very cost-effective, smart strategy.

It's a sweet deal for the firm. Most workers will wind up worse off as a result of the defined contribution plans. Some might be better off if they invest very well. Most people aren't sophisticated investors.

It's as much defined by the people who haven't gotten it as by the people who have,

What is victory? Nobody has defined what victory is.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

We have a defined clientele. The kids come to us. We have to take them and make them into football players. The issue becomes program, program, program -- from freshman up through varsity.

It's a very exciting first study, but there are still some things that need to be defined by a greater number of patients,

There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

This is yen supportive. People are starting to get quite a defined time line on when the Bank of Japan will end its easing and are quite convinced its going to happening next week.

There's a lot of people telling you that you can't do it but, you know what, that doesn't mean you don't go try. Don't let your journey be defined by history, let your journey make history.

Carrying a very different cost structure than your competitors and having an element of unpredictability relative to competitors has caused many companies to move away from defined benefit plans.

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

I do see that quality, triceps and quadriceps, really defined muscles, like a body builder.

I can understand why Cal Ripken wanted to keep playing, ... It's a rarity. I think it defined my career.

I don't see her beholden to Bush. Because of this fastidious commitment to doing the right thing, she will get in there and understand the rules of the game, what the Court's already decided, and what did the legislation or administration rules say that defined the scope of conduct.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

For the first two years, we prepared all the documents, re-arranged our operating structure and defined our mission and scope of operations. They were not physical, noticeable changes.