Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.
Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
There comes a time in every woman's life where she will decide to eat cookie dough. It is when and how that truly defines her.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.