#define

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#power #situation #ultimate #ultimate power

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished! ↗

— Robbie Thomas

#quotes-to-define-my-life #quotes-to-live-by #life

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. ↗

— Scott Adams

#before #businesses #capital #cartooning #cartoonist

We did what people do. We stood side by side and smoked our little passive aggressive wishes for death, and stared down at our glory days. And then we set the world on fire, for a dream that felt so real is nothing but a risk never taken. ↗

— Victor Giannini

#scott-too #victor-giannini #death

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#character #completely #conditions #customary #defined

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation. ↗

— Gary Locke

#attitude #can-do #defined #education #grow

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him. ↗

— Donal Logue

#carolina #day #defined #dog #friend

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#move #private #public #whenever #wished

I'm a Black Sheep hopelessly lost in a field of delicious Blue Grass. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life