Determined Quotes - Page 29

• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Art, World, Littles

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• Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

  Ari Marmell

  Pity, Follow Me, Seems

  Ari Marmell (2012). “Darksiders: The Abomination Vault”, p.99, Del Rey

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• We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

  Justin Somper

  Perspective, Helping, Those We Love

  Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK

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• It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers.

  Alex Pentland

  Ideas, People, Peers

  Alex Pentland (2014). “Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Differences, Effort

  Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 24, 1960.

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• A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

  Ari Kiev

  Fate, Successful, Doe

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• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  Karl Marx

  Duration, Individual, Process

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• I`m determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

  Joe Manchin

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.

  Chaka Khan

  Serious, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

  Paul Westerberg

  Jobs, Stupid, Musician

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

  Richard Branson

  Teenager, Moon, Space

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

  Richard Branson

  Space, Astronaut, Protect

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, War, Heart

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.8, e-artnow

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• Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'

  Annie Smith Peck

  Suicide, Depressing, Home

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• Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Government, Blood

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• The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Philosophy, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.79, Psychology Press

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• The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Way, Workers

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• [We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Rights, Government

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• I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wall, Moving, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Russia, Government, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

  Jackie Gleason

  Children

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• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  Otto Weininger

  Reality, Doe, Genius

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

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• Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Needs, Sitting

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.29, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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