Decisive Factor Quotes

#1. There is no value-judgment more important to a man
no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation
than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

#2. Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Mao Zedong

#3. The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

Martin Caidin

#4. The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

Ellen Key

#5. Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.

Gary Zukav

#6. One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Freeman Dyson

#7. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Rajneesh

#9. Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Lawrence Lessig

#10. In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

Mao Zedong

#11. We're not giving moms credit when we pose them as the decisive factor in a child's development, we're sticking them with the bill.

Anonymous

#12. The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#13. The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Hun Sen

#14. We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#15. Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

#17. I call it ... the hot dog tree, because ... it's a hot dog tree.

Paul Reubens

#18. The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.

Pearl Zhu

#19. Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

Kim Il-sung

#21. There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Carter

#22. Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

#23. A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

Juan Goytisolo

#24. Put me down, I'm too heavy."
"You're small enough to fit in my pocket.

Sarah Mayberry

#25. That's just a fiction," I said, "a little game of protocol." "Little games of protocol are how one shows respect, especially to those with whom one does not get along famously well. It can be tedious, but generally is less trouble than a duel would be.

Jim Butcher

#26. Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided.

Valerie Z. Lewis

#27. The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think ... and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

#28. We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Derek Prince

#29. The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

Carleton S. Coon

#30. Economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.

Max Tegmark

#31. She is like the rain that loosens the scent from things.

Glenn Haybittle

#32. You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

Bill Watterson

#33. I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

Moshe Sharett