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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

The definition of success is total preparation.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality.... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it.... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

My definition of success is control.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

A horse is wonderful by definition.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk. Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.