#defining

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

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

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#degrees #event #hot #remains #thousand

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#always #been #caught #characterized #defining

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#defining #defining moment #make #mark #me

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. ↗

— Colin Powell

#defining #down #economy #get #got

MTV has always been about redefining itself. ↗

— Martha Quinn

#always #been #itself #mtv #redefining

At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#age