Determinants Quotes

#1. Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Alain De Botton

#3. Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones?

Richard Dawkins

#4. When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Were it that intelligence, skill, or quality were prime determinants of success, I might have an easier time of it.

F.F. White

#6. To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Willard Gaylin

#7. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Justin Menkes

#8. Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

Harold George Koenig

#10. The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company.

Brian Tracy

#11. A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort -

Ben Fountain

#12. [A] ccounting results dominated most managers' attention to the point where they no longer knew, or cared, about the production, technological, and marketing determinants of competitiveness.

Jeremy Hope

#13. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#14. Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

#15. Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

David Hawkins

#16. Knowing of your penchant for trouble, Miss Bowman, I have concluded that it is safer to keep you in my sight, and within arm's reach if possible.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Justin Vernon

#18. What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Alfred De Vigny

#19. Hold these tears inside
Don't have the energy to cry
Stand back and breathe
Ice freezes in your veins

Alysha Speer

#20. Honesty is admired, and starves.

Juvenal

#21. Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

Ne-Yo

#22. Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Joseph Joubert

#23. Men should not petition for rights, but take them

Thomas Paine

#24. Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath and heartbeat and pulse are my new favorite symphony; I'm beginning to learn which notes will play when, and to interpret them.

Michelle Hodkin

#25. The world's most difficult affairs
begin in easiness.
The world's greatest affairs
always begin in the small.

Lao-Tzu

#26. I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

Christopher Buckley

#27. Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

Saul David