What you want to be defines what you become.
You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.
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.
My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.
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.
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
There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.
It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.
It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.