Quotes About Determining

#1. We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price
but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.

Bill Maher

#2. It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Epictetus

#3. Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.

Ron Barber

#4. Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry ... Congruent means in Euclidean geometry the same as determining parallelism, a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.

Hans Reichenbach

#6. By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

Stefan Sagmeister

#7. Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

William James

#8. But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. Determining the essence of different points of view (what Lyndon Johnson called "listening"),

Robert A. Caro

#10. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

Bernie Sanders

#11. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Theodore William Richards

#13. To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

Philip Auslander

#15. The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.

Robert Barry

#16. If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#17. It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy (beatum esse velle), our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.

Hannah Arendt

#18. The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

George Soros

#19. For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.

Algernon Blackwood

#20. We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them ... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Russell L. Ackoff

#21. Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

Beverly K. Bachel

#22. Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

James Costos

#23. [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

William H Gass

#24. The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.

Dalton Camp

#25. Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

Walter Lippmann

#26. Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

Charles Garfield

#27. In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Toby Young

#28. I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear.

M.B. Dallocchio

#29. But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Diana Nyad

#30. There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Charles T. Munger

#31. The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#32. Much of online dating, Finkel and company argued, is based on the faulty notion that the kind of information we can see in a profile is actually useful in determining whether that person would make a good partner.

Aziz Ansari

#33. Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

David Brooks

#34. As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

Theodore Roosevelt

#35. Try looking in the mirror and determining where you stand in the attractiveness-hierarchy with anything like the objective ease you can determine whether just about anyone else you know is good-looking or not - but

David Foster Wallace

#36. We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#37. The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Harold S. Kushner

#38. Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Isaac Newton

#39. Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#40. Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

Karl Marx

#41. The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

Kim Jee-woon

#42. It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Blackbeard

#43. THE MISCONCEPTION: You rationally analyze all factors before making a choice or determining value. THE TRUTH: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions.

David McRaney

#44. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

Sakyong Mipham

#45. It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.

Jonathan Ames

#46. I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#47. Save it, Ike." Riley shoved the sleeves of her jacket up to her elbows and cracked her knuckles as if she was determining which of her fists to use on me first.

Phyllis Bourne

#48. Always remember ... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#49. The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself ...

William, Saroyan

#50. Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

Morris F. Cohen

#51. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

Baruch Spinoza

#52. Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.

Edward Snowden

#53. Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.

Cendrine Marrouat

#54. A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation - the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and be plugged into the system.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#55. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

#56. The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

Hugh Ferriss

#57. Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

T.F. Hodge

#58. If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#59. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

Warren Buffett

#60. It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature

Kenneth E. Boulding

#61. Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.

Friedrich Engels

#62. The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

Angela Braly

#63. Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.

Nate Silver

#64. The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.

Frederick Lenz

#65. This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

James Stockdale

#66. Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.

Wes Adamson

#67. It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

David R. Ellis

#68. Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

Gerald Brommer

#69. heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area

Ben Carson

#70. Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

Conan O'Brien

#71. I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

George Ryan

#72. As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

Randall Kennedy

#73. Democracy is not a solution but a way of seeking solutions -- not a form of State devoted to this or that particular end...but a form of State devoted, whatever its end may be, to a single means and method of determining that end.

Ernest Barker

#74. It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

Harry Sinden

#75. The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#76. History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#77. There is no greater truth in determining one's philosophy as to the way they live their lives. This is an all-pervading, bull****-repellent way to understand what you or anyone else truly believes.

Chris Matakas

#78. What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

Zig Ziglar

#79. If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.

Narendra Modi

#80. The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.

James Bastien

#81. It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

David Lilienthal

#82. Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone's actions either good or bad.

Epictetus

#83. Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

Stephen Hawking

#84. My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

Ursula Burns

#85. As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.

Rhonda Byrne

#86. Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

Suzanne Collins

#87. The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#88. The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

William Ames

#89. The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining
elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

Plutarch

#90. Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience.

James Gleick

#91. The decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions -

Will Durant

#92. When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Jason Chaffetz

#93. Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

Kevin Rose

#94. In spite of the fundamental importance of economic facts in determining politics and beliefs of an age or nation, I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected without risks of error which may be fatal in practice.

Bertrand Russell

#95. Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Ajay Naidu

#96. In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

Mikhail Sholokhov

#97. Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

#98. Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Benjamin Graham

#99. Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

Sakyong Mipham

#100. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw