Defines Quotes

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

What you invest your time in defines who you are.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.