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“When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.”

Men Long Belief Cases Defined Investigation Disturbing Preconceptions

Author:John Reader

“A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.”

May Long Intuition Symbols Defined Transfers

Book:The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers

Source: The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers

“The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.”

“We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.”

Difficulty Defined Bumps

Author:Vince Poscente

“Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.”

Giving Form Desire Imagination Existence Creativity Connections Originals Defined Innate

Author:Shaun McNiff

“Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.”

Ifs May Given Goal Common Share Achieve Position Skills Blessed Defined Abundance Airports Luggage Leadership Skills Common Goal Working With Others

Author:David Cottrell

“I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.”

School Gender Defined

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.”

Knows Feels Careers Danger Judging Down And Oneself Defined About Yourself Popularity Up And Down How You Feel

Author:Kenny Loggins

“You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.”

World Color Skins Embrace Defined Skin Color Where You Come World Is Yours

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.”

Personality Majors Defined

Author:Roland Orzabal

“The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.”

I Can Reason Stories Lying Argument Bases Infinite Conclusion Defined Reason Why Short Story Flexibility Axioms

Author:H. E. Bates

“We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.”

Defined Borders

Author:Barack Obama

“Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.”

“Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.”

Thinking Way Process Imagination Creativity Defined Working It

Author:Ken Robinson

“The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.”

Wells Important Term Areas Important Things Circles Defined Competence Perimeter

Author:Warren Buffett

“Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined”

Ifs May Government Struggle Issues Crosses Fundamentals Defined Falsehood Consistently

Author:Zechariah Chafee

“The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.”

Mean Order Concepts Genuine Defined Departure Arrivals

Author:Klemens von Metternich

“Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.”

Space Numbers Computer Mathematics Patterns Definitions Defined Evident Resonance

Author:Lynn Steen

“Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.”

Enough Mathematics Defined

Author:John Allen Paulos

“As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.”

Thinking Has Beens Young Evolution Lists Crafts Defined Improvising Tenors Coltrane Lester Young

Author:Herbie Mann

“A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance”

May Ends Bigs Taken Periods Speech Defined Portions Glances

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.”

Ifs Ability Company Support Cutting Higher Skills Standards Workers Average Defined Efficiency Improving Wages Maintaining Standards Of Living Competitiveness

Author:Michael Porter

“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!”

People Way Today Social Voice One Thing Media Industry Right Now Happenings Social Media Thanks Defined Designer Just One

Author:Maria Borges

“As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.”

Thinking Want Giving Character Chance College Feminist Defined Sophomore

Author:Caroline Dries

“Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.”

Play America Games Sex Essentials Elements Definitions Defined Maleness

Author:Margaret Mead

“The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.”

Should Different Self Earth Humanity Cutting Security Defined Welfare Consideration Sections National Security Paramount

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.”

Ability Quality Creation Rounds Definitions Senses Defined Reports Substitutes Puzzles Reflecting Elusive

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.”

Want May Beautiful Religious Defined Lakes Sufi Postcards

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.”

Circles Defined Formulas

Book:On War

Source: On War

“The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past those definitions of a God who is external, supernatural, and invasive, which previously defined our belief. We must discover whether or not the death of the God we worshiped yesterday is the same thing as the death of God.”

Past Spirit Belief Journey Definitions Yesterday Contemporary Defined

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.”

People May Sometimes Facts Given Force Secret Illusion Democratic Defined Regimes Now And Then Sovereign Sovereignty Irresponsible

Author:Benito Mussolini

“In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.”

Action Results Study Objects Independent Defined Mathematical Operations Analysis Consideration Peculiar Engines Distinguished Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.”

Should Hard Easy Hard Work Should Have Defined Accumulation Easy Things

Author:John C. Maxwell

“It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.”

States Form Law Universe Belief Natural Clear Catholic Remains Strategy Libertarian Defined Tribes Pagan Natural Law Barbarism Mystique Rhetorical Bernard Shaw Rhetorical Strategies

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.”

Wells Understanding Existence Fit Increase Add Defined Data Complexity Layers Unnecessary Hypothesis Corresponding Existence Of God

Author:Sean M. Carroll

“The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.”

Situation Theory Regard Currents Defined Odd Paradox Current Situation

Author:Simon Critchley

“Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.”

Choices Individual Morality Defined Individual Choice

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.”

People Ifs World Stills Certain Causes Interest Willing Very Good Pursuit Violent Defined Willingness Stakes Credibility Good Causes

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."”

Attitude Emotional Defined Exaggeration Ambiguous Sentimentality Kitsch

Author:Gillo Dorfles

“Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.”

May Form Lying Defined Aesthetic Kitsch

Book:Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

Source: Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

“Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.”

Ifs Enemy Defined About Yourself Register Define You

Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.”

People Reading Worry Too Much Written Defined Frustrating

Author:Ani DiFranco

“A problem defined, is a problem half solved.”

Problem Half Defined

Author:Albert Einstein

“The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.”

Soul Process Simple Path Walking Unity Defined Solace Labyrinth

Book:Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice

Source: Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice

“In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”

People World Humans Animal Normal Kingdoms Defined Acid Prozac Animal Kingdom

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Define yourself or be defined.”

Defined Define Yourself

Author:Antero Alli

“...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.”

Kind May Art Light Universe Justice Highest Aspect Defined Visible Manifold

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.”

Thinking Knows Humans Human Beings Messages Pressure Yeah Defined Fallen Peers Peer Pressure

Author:Kanye West

“Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'”

Thinking Men Has Beens Self Might Harmony Defined

Author:Marion G. Romney

“I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.”

Defined Clients

Author:Tom Peters

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