Definition Quotes - page 34

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. (Sister Souljah)
A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. View quote
Elon Musk
The sight of the intuitive and ravishing Beauty of God holds her as if asleep in its delectable bosom...This state surpasses all human definition and comparison. View quote
John of St. Samson
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. View quote
Deepak Chopra
You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. View quote
Art Spiegelman
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live. View quote
Malala Yousafzai
On the French view of international politics: "According to my dictionary, the word 'ally' comes from the Old French. Very Old French, I'd say. For the New French, the word has a largely postmodern definition of 'duplicitous charmer who undermines you at every opportunity.' View quote
Mark Steyn
Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different. (George Orwell)
2. Analytic It is clear that the definition of 'logic' or 'mathematics' must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of 'analytic' propositions. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. View quote
Linus Torvalds
All you've got to do is just be inventive with this character and have fun. That's the definition of an ingenious character. To get to step into the shoes of the Tick, I just felt that was an honor. View quote
Patrick Warburton
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. View quote
Albert Camus
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually "grasp” reality. View quote
Alan Watts
A definition, if it is to be called perfect, must explain the inmost essence of a thing, and must take care not to substitute for this any of its properties. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. View quote
Arlen Specter
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time. View quote
Bruce Jenner
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
There is only one kind of person, Phædrus said, who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phædrus said, is "insane." (Robert M. Pirsig)
No extended definition of good is necessary to those who follow Jesus; even converted savages understand good and do it. View quote
Charles Fillmore
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man. View quote
Walter Bagehot
By definition, a pair of inherently unmeasurable, non-stationary systems, are coupled to produce an inherently measurable stationary system. View quote
Gordon Pask
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art. View quote
Samuel Beckett