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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. Mary Catherine Bateson

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Erskine Bowles

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Nelson Goodman

I tried never to be defined by my past.

Issey Miyake

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

Ted Cruz

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

David Byrne

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Anne Stevenson

Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined.

Alfonso Cuaron

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Walter Lang

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Kenny Loggins

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

Caroline Knapp

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

Debby Ryan

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled into this category or that category so that fund of funds, pensions, and other institutions can make comforting - if not necessarily prudent - asset allocation decisions.

Michael Burry

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

Dick Thornburgh

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Dewey

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Kenneth Koch

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

John Buchanan Robinson

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

Liz Phair

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

John Glenn

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

V. S. Naipaul

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.

Jonathan Sacks

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Kevin Ayers

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

Shane Filan

Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Angela Duckworth

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Peter Thiel

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

Sania Mirza

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Marvin Olasky

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

Kofi Annan

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

John Burnside

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

Keke Palmer

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

Mustafa Akyol

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

Ahmed Zewail

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Constantin Stanislavski