Determined Quotes - Page 39

• Art is man determined to die sane.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Men, Sane

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Thinking, Want

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• The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Discouraging, Popping

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• Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Uncertainty Principle, Momentum, Position

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• I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

  Cliff Martinez

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

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• Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

  Harold Bloom

  Arbitrary, Literature, Life Is

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• In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Airplane, Flying, Outcomes

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• People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

  Sylvia Earle

  Writing, Long, People

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• A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Demand, Commodity, Economics

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• Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Book, Men

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• I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessary -- being determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived.

  George Boole

  Order, Ideas, Doubt

  George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.5

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• They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Individual Differences

  "The Obliging Order: William F. Buckley’s War on Totalitarianism and Blandness" by Thomas F. Bertonneau, www.firstprinciplesjournal.com. Fall 2008.

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• To him who has determined, it only remains to act.

  James Florio

  Determination, Remains

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• Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Years, Waste

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• Your prosperity and happiness will ultimately be determined by the enrichment you create for others in this world. If whatever you are doing does not enrich your life, or that of others, then it's time to do something else.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Doe, World, Prosperity

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• Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

  Kate Simon

  Women, Home, Knowing

  Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

  David Letterman

  Reading, August, President

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• What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they will be stopped.

  George W. Bush

  War, Struggle, Enemy

  "President's remarks at Pentagon ceremony". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2002.

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• Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.

  Benjamin Haydon

  One Direction, Views, Enemy

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• No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Practice, Perfect, Suffering

  1978 The Crooked Timber of Humanity,'The Decline of Utopian Ideals in the West'.

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• The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

  Henry David Thoreau

  United States, Slavery, Four

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  George C. Homans

  Running, Long, People

  1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

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• The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Mean, History, Events

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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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