Quotes of: Defines Keyword

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

Naomi Judd

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Warren Farrell

He made a commitment, Eena.” “And you believe this ,” she spoke the word detestably, “is more important than true love?” “Yes.” “No,” she stubbornly disagreed. “Yes,” Ian insisted as he put his finger to her lips, preventing her...

Eena, The Return of a Queen

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike t...

Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders

Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk ...

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

[The myth of the ] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs as those who know or were born to know; he thereby defines others as a...

Paulo Freire

Captain: Define "hoe-down". Ship's Computer: Hoe-down: A social gathering at which lively dancing would take place. Captain: [AUTO appears near the captain] AUTO! Earth is amazing! These are called "farms". Humans would put seeds in the ground, pour ...

WALL·E

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Cryptonomicon

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Take the time first to understand who you are and everything else will fall into place.

Define Yourself and become the architect of your future

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

Every Day

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Eating People is Wrong

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

Ghost Town

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

Here, Home, Hope

The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Break, Blow, Burn