#defining

I don't like defining myself. I just am. ↗

— Britney Spears

#defining #i #just #like #myself

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#based #class #defining #functions #guidance

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ↗

— John Sununu

#defining #forced #laws #left #legal

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. ↗

— Jill Scott

#every #her #his #i #i think

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#dances #defining #defining moment #experience #grasp

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves. ↗

— Dr. Henry Cloud

#character-defining #character-development #character-driven #character-quote #encourage

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like. ↗

— David Graeber

#capitalism #redefining-consumption #dreams

The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something. ↗

— Meg Jay

#life

Everyone wears clothing, yes? Society divides these clothing up into Men & Women’s, Boys & Girls’, Jr. & Miss. But society cannot decide who wears what. While the fabric may be cut to suit a traditionally male or female body (boy or girls body), the second the buyer purchases the item, that clothing no longer becomes 'boys' or 'girls' clothes, but rather, the buyers clothes. This is an example of the individual defining the identity term vs. the identity term defining the individual. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#defining #glbt #identity-terms #men