Determined Quotes - Page 24

• What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Views, Energy, Levels

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Closest

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of the Inner Circle: Lesson 11 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Height, Pinnacle, Breadth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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• Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humility, World, Holiness

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• You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

  Frank Shorter

  Training, Mind, Body

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Men, Brain, Study

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• In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

  Rick Warren

  Country, Forgiving, Succeed

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• The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.

  Orison S. Marden

  Strong, Cutting, Men

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• It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

  Andy Stanley

  Matter, Ifs, Havens

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• I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

  Alan Lightman

  May, Matter, Belief

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• Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

  David Lehman

  Mean, Artist, Criticism

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Bill Dixon

  Player, Magic, Musician

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• If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Groundhog Day, Regimes, Endless

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

  Herschel Walker

  Player, Men, Renaissance

  Herschel Walker, Gary Brozek, Jerry Mungadze, Charlene Maxfield (2009). “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dirty, Wine, California

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• I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

  Anne Hathaway

  Song, Hard Work, Artist

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• I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

  Ned Beauman

  Book, Writing, Cat

  "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Character, Research

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• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

  Chris Crutcher

  Believe, Character, Redemption

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• I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

  Julian Castro

  War, Men, Digital Revolution

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Thinking, Views, Mind

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• It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Self, People

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• There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

  Steve Case

  Facts, Sides, Helping

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Who I Am, Names, Progress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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