Quotes of Defined - somelinesforyou

“ Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken. ”

- Tom Rose

“ If you are not making the progress you would like, and are capable of making, it Is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. ”

- Paul Meyer

“ What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ”

- Edward de Bono

“ Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis, best suited to open the way, to the next better one. ”

- Konrad Lorenz

“ To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ”

- Simone Weil

“ When most people sit down to make a list, they're actually trying to combine all five of the phases we've defined for mastering workflow: collect, process, organize, review and do. ”

- David Allen

“ Style may be defined as the proper words in the proper places. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement. ”

- Leo J. Muir

“ Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ”

- David Jenkins

“ I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. ”

- John Hughes

“ Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife. ”

- Harry V. Wade

“ For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ”

- Jane Taylor

“ It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race. ”

- Emily Murphy

“ The African was defined and treated as being of a lesser human species than even the lowliest among the colonizers. ”

- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

“ You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ”

- Frank Miller

“ A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity. ”

- David Allen

“ Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. ”

- Alexander Haig

“ Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. ”

- Nelson Goodman

“ The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ”

- Stewart Alsop

“ Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined — It dies. ”

- Unknown

“ Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. ”

- Robert Pirsig

“ Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ”

- Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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