Determined Quotes - Page 23

• What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

  Elizabeth Dole

  People, Decision, Listening

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• The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse.

  Homer Smith

  Responsibility, Blood, Mouths

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• Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.

  Alvin Bailey

  Strong, Mean, Law

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• If I catch them, I will kill them.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Ifs

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• To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Helping, Policy, Determine

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• Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

  John Bonham

  School, Nuts, Drummer

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• Mindful that it's running out, I am determined to have the time of my life.

  Sheila Hancock

  Running, Time Of My Life, I Am Determined

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• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  Russell Baker

  Classic, Synonym, Narcotics

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• I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

  Thomas Nagel

  Responsibility, Choices, Not Sure

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

  Jan Cameron

  Successful, Animal, Thinking

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• The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

  Peter Schwartz

  Ideas, Race, Diversity

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• Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Should, Treated, Values

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• The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Simple, Keys, Agendas

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• What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.

  Mac Anderson

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Today, Lows

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Income, Economy

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• Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Decision, Sake, Realizing

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• Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

  George Bernard Shaw

  Unique, Men, Goal

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• You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Shapes, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 07, 2011

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• We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Giving, Degrees

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• There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 08, 2017

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trying, Nerves, Enough

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• To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sin, Christ, Mockery

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come.
  
  However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.

  John Wooden

  Past, Keys, Doors

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.11, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Passion

  "'L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix' ('The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix')". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1863.

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