Defining Characteristics Quotes

To define is to limit.

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.

To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

If the 'Boosh' was a bit more of a specific thing, or less multi-limbed, we would probably have done it and moved on.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.