Determined Quotes - Page 36

• The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

  Sybil Leek

  Watches, Spectators, Willing

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Desire

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Focus, Political

  "Road Map in the Back Seat?" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 27, 2003.

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• [the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

  Aristotle

  Defining, Principles, Add

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• Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Youth, Coming Out

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• The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Prosperous Future, Healthy

  "Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Adam Vaughan, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Believe, Men

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• The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

  Paul Auster

  Moon, People, Swallowing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.38, Penguin

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• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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• The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Running, Track, Choices

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• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Manage

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Two, Fundamentals

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.113, Casemate Publishers

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• I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

  Steven Gerrard

  Dad, Building, Footballer

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

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• The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Hate, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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  Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Trying, Easy, Certain

  "Dream the possible dream" Sheryl Sandberg, bluesky.chicagotribune.com. May 3, 2014.

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• To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

  James Agate

  Money, Force, More Money

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• M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Zola

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.925, Wordsworth Editions

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• I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Different, Actors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.

  Henry Sy

  Dream, Hard Work, Goal

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• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

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• Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Stress, Reality, Play

  "War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?". www.scientificamerican.com. December 1, 2009.

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• It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Believe, Facts, Servant Leadership

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• Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, Complaining, Use

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  School, Study, Biology

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