A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.
The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but. . . a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.
All economic activity is by definition "high risk. " And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.