Determined Quotes - Page 40

• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Fighting, Opportunity, May

  "Rumsfeld: Uday, Qusay photos will be released", www.cnn.com. July 24, 2003.

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Army, Rights

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn and William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2004.

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• The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mind, World, Circumstances

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Needs, Kind

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• Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Self, Interesting, Long

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• The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

  Andy Stanley

  Giving, Life Is, Values

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• Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Perspective, Perception, Needs

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• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Age, Measurement, Size

  "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

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• I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  States, Mississippi, I Am Determined

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• In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Careers, Decision

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• The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Equations

  "Magick Book IV : Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1929.

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• This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for itto change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

  Augustus Napier

  Men, Parent, Style

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• I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Notion, Heavenly, Humans

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.234, Stanford University Press

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• When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

  David Harewood

  Change, Children, Thinking

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• I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

  Carolina Kostner

  Justice, Bitter, Not Happy

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• Yesterday's dust
  determined
  today's range of vision

  Mario

  Dust, Yesterday, Vision

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• Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.

  Mike Murdock

  Rewards In Life, Kind, Problem

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Nov 05, 2016

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• It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

  Steve Goodier

  Encouraging, Perseverance, May

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• You cannot keep determined people for success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People

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• As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

  Robert De Niro

  Thinking, Choices, Way

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• I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Views, Political

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Thinking, Long, Age

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• Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.

  Julie King

  Crazy, Pressure, Done

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