Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Kathleen Hanna

Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.

Alarms and Discursions

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

The Heretic

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

I am a Cat III

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Requiem

Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.

Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

The Rivals

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Shadow & Claw

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.

Single Dad Laughing

If you do not define success for yourself, you may unknowingly adopt someone else's definition along the way.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

No Exit

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Lexicon

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization. In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition. We define it as interplanomics.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

Maid for the Billionaire

Your mistakes... Should always guide you to a better life And Not define you to help keep you in the past

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

The Other Side