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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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Their newness and certainty (the Definiteness of British troops in uniform) did Azrak greater honour than plain loneliness.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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“Definiteness is not in the form but the love,” she said, more and more irritated, not by his words, but by the tone of cool composure in which he spoke.
Anna Karenina 2003
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Obviously it must, beforehand, be either Definiteness or a defined thing.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Definiteness of the boundaries, then, is not only good management in that it shows up the work and that it allows each man to see, and each man over him, or observing him to see exactly what has been done, -- it has also an excellent effect upon the worker's mind.
The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925
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Definiteness of reference to second subject of discourse: expressed by second the, which has preposed position
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Definiteness of reference to first subject of discourse: expressed by first the, which has preposed position
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Definiteness of thought determines clearness of outline.
Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Definiteness of aim is characteristic of all true art.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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