The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people but real management is developing people through work.

In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I mean the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script I think in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me that means it effectively uses it in the story.

I played teen roles until high definition came out and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology but it will date it. By definition. Eventually it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

My definition of success is control.

The keys to brand success are self-definition transparency authenticity and accountability.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers and protects its weak.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas and I like that definition but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss and I feel like in modern day relationships and maybe just my own experience it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions there's no labels.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Well I think by definition all power has limits.

When the media defines something you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

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.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Poetry almost by definition calls attention to its language and form.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.