Determine Quotes
Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.
I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.
If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.
Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.
We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.
Ultimately, it is the people who judge, through elections, whether someone governs well or not. It's not up to other politicians to define and determine our colleagues.
Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.
You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.
Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.
Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.
Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.
Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.
I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future.
The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.