Fondness Define Quotes

It doesn't matter if you work at a fast food joint or if you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Your job title does not define your purpose. The size of your paycheck does not make you worthy. What makes you valuable is your contribution to the world and the legacy that you leave behind. Stop defining yourself by what you do, and start defining yourself by who you are! ~ John Geiger

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. ~ Steve Tibbetts

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. ~ Elizabeth McGovern

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ~ Thomas Hardy

Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets. ~ Stephen King

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ~ Audre Lorde

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don't allow them to define you. ~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment ... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively. ~ Christie Brinkley

Mistakes are meant to be learnt from. They do not define you or your life. They are simply teaching tools to prepare you for the next stage of your life. ~ Avina Celeste

I've never used music to sell my faith and I've never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. We've always tried to define our music outside of genres ... what is a genre? A genre's a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild. ~ Jon Foreman

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. ~ Sherry Argov

The stories you know define the boundaries of your understanding. ~ Mervin Ignacio

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That's what's going to define you. ~ Denzel Washington

These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them. ~ Alexander Hamilton

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. ~ John Ruskin

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong ~ Wentworth Miller

Because many people are confused by Kundalini's real nature, we must do more to define it accurately, starting with what it is not. For example, it isn't devil worship or a supernatural cult. Neither is it a religion nor a sect. It's a biological process. You can't be converted to Kundalini any more than you can be converted to a heart attack or an orgasm; they just happen. That's the nature of biological processes: They just happen. ~ J.J. Semple

I think love is a hard word to define," I say to her. "You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person. ~ Colleen Hoover

We are just waves in time and space, changing continuously, and the illusion of individuality is produced through the concatenation of the rapidly succeeding phases of existence. What we define as likeness is merely the result of the symmetrical arrangement of molecules which compose our body. ~ Nikola Tesla

The grace to define your self is spiritual act. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Socrates refused to neatly define the self he had in mind, just as Buddha refused to use a word like "God." Their reasons were the same: it defeats the truth to use words, since words imply that you know what you are looking for. Instead, truth is an experience. It cannot be anticipated, any more than one can anticipate, at age five, what it will be like to go to college, get married, have children. Experience is fresh and new (or should be); thus truth is fresh and new. From there, it's a small step to demanding that God be fresh and new. ~ Deepak Chopra

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good. ~ Sarah Dessen

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. WE DEFINE OURSELVES. ~ Cynthia Eden

Words are big. They define who you are. They are permanent. I don't think most people realize that. What you say is who you are. So try to be gentle on social media. Lift others up when you can, even if you don't agree with what they have to say. Don't always turn your words into weapons when you can just as easily make them doves. ~ Jann Arden

If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.4 ~ Edward Tenner

A belief system usually evolves over time. It's something that we grow into, as our needs and goals develop and change. Even when we find a system of beliefs that works for us, we hone and fine-tune it, working our way deeper and deeper into its essential truth. Everything we experience, every thought we have, every desire, need, action, and reaction - everything we perceive with our senses goes into our personal databank and helps to create the belief systems that we hold now. Nothing is lost or forgotten in our lives.
You don't have to remain a victim of your conditioning, however. You can choose for yourself what you believe or don't believe, what you desire and don't desire. You can define your own parameters. Once you do that, you can start consciously creating your destiny according to your own vision. ~ Skye Alexander

It's not fair."
"No, it's not," I hear someone say, her footsteps barely more than a whisper against the floor. "But then again, a lot in life isn't fair." The woman is concealed in the shadows. "It's how you handle yourself in such situations and what you learn from them that will define you. ~ Jen Calonita

You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances - good or bad - may exist. ~ John Wooden

Now, you've been dealt some tough blows along the way, but those trials don't define you. You can't let them hold you back from getting out there and living. ~ Melissa Brayden

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness ... Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition. ~ Norman Cousins

conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as 'junk'; ~ John Parrington

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process. ~ Edgar Mitchell

The purpose of language is to facilitate expression and communication, not to altogether define or contain them. ~ Jennifer Hamady

Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces. That raises the sinister and seemingly paradoxical possibility that radical individualism is the handmaiden of collectivist tyranny.

This individualism, it is quite apparent in our time, attacks the authority of family, church, and private association. The family is said to be oppressive, the fount of our miseries. It is denied that the church may legitimately insist upon what it regards as moral behavior in its members. Private association are routinely denied the autonomy to define their membership for themselves.

The upshot is that these institutions, which stand between the state and the individual, are progressively weakened and their functions increasingly dictated or taken over by the state. The individual becomes less of a member of powerful private institutions and more a member of an unstructured mass that is vulnerable to the collectivist coercion of the state. Thus does radical individualism prepare the way for its opposite. ~ Robert H. Bork

Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer - you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language, all the joy that you derive from a naked woman - or a plum pudding. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Nurture the child within oneself and define a new era of global peace and understanding.'-Dalia Qutob ~ Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

God may create us but we Define ~ Shashidhar Sa

We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to work, play, destroy, or create. We can allow a variety of cultural factors or other people to define who we are, or we can create a self-definition. We decide what to monitor in the environment. We regulate how much attention we pay to nature, other people, or the self. We can watch and comment upon current cultural events and worldly happenings or withdraw and ignore the external world. We can drink alcohol, dabble with recreational drugs, play videogames, or watch television, films, and sporting events. We can travel, go on nature walks, camp, fish, and hunt, climb mountains, or take whitewater-rafting trips. We can build, paint, sing, create music, write poetry, or read and write books. We can cook, barbeque, eat fine cuisine at restaurants or go on fasts. We can attend church services, worship and pray, or chose to embrace agnosticism or atheism. We can belong to charitable organizations or political parties. We can actively or passively support or oppose social and ecological causes. We can share time with family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances or live alone and eschew social intermixing. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted. ~ Kim H. Krisco

My stories do not define who I am. They let me play God, Queen, and Ruler. I breathe life into my characters or I can destroy them as quickly and painfully as I see fit. Writing is an art, allowing me to entertain, to awaken emotions in a reader, drawing them in to satisfy a thirst they did not know exists. Suzanne Eglington ~ Suzanne Eglington