In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life andor what I am going through at that specific time.
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself
My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.
But you were a goody-goody, you said. ' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.
You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude. '
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
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.
I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.
What you want to be defines what you become.
I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.
Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
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.
When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are.
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.