"Successful men are defined by thier actions;
Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken." »Tom Rose
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"Failure is defined by our reaction to it." »Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
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"Cargo's impotance is defined by it's vessel." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy." »John C. Sawhill
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." »Bertrand Russell
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"Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual." »Rune Leknes
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"Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." »H.L. Mencken
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"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves." »Thomas Szasz
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"Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark." »L. B. Walton
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"I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation." »Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." »Unknown
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"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." »Robert Heinlein
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"In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning." »H. A. Kramers
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"Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society." »B. J. Gupta
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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists." »Calvin S. Hall
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"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes." »Peter Drucker
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor." »Mark Twain
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"Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is." »Robert Pirsig
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"Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control" »Joan B. Campbell
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"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." »Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing"
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"He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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