Definitional Quotes & Sayings

It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness. — Taylor Schilling

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance. — Tom DeMarco

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined. — Robert Haugen

Like the doctrine of determinism, its better-known metaphysical cousin, fatalism holds that it is not in our power to do anything other than what we actually end up doing. — David Foster Wallace

Some people have something to say. Some people have to say something Avoid the second group. — Ichak Kalderon Adizes

Superheroes are never invisible," he says. "They're just deluded. — Karen Marie Moning

In quarrels such as these
not ours to intervene. — Virgil

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them. — Meister Eckhart

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment. — Drake

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti. — Ann Bancroft

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent. — Martin Luther

What we are worshipping we are becoming. Every moment of every day our choices enact our loves, our desires, and our aspirations. And we are molding ourselves into the God or gods we thereby worship. — Terryl L. Givens