Top 100 Quotes About Determining
#1. Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.
Louise Bourgeois
#2. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#3. Forming good values and beliefs comes by determining what they should be and then building them inside of you
Sunday Adelaja
#4. I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".
Warren Buffett
#5. Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions ...
Auren Hoffman
#6. Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.
Paul Tournier
#7. If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
Evgeny Morozov
#8. Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
Randall Kennedy
#9. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Merlin Olsen
#10. I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.
Isabel Allende
#11. The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
#12. Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#13. We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.
Raymond Geuss
#14. I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.
Joe Biden
#15. We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.
Robert Mueller
#16. Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
John C. Maxwell
#17. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
Larry Ellison
#18. Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton
Colton Robinsmith
#19. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#20. Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
Ben Lerner
#21. We are used to determining the time of our projects and events ourselves, and this is the reason why our life is full of chaos and vanity.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. You are the determining factor in your future. Don't let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.
Zig Ziglar
#23. The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Allan Bloom
#24. [I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#25. A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
Steven Sinofsky
#26. Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.
Joyce Meyer
#27. There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.
Neil Postman
#28. The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.
Jonathan Darman
#30. The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#31. As Trick points out, sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. For
Brian Christian
#32. The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
J. C. Watts
#34. We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science
Seth Klarman
#35. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
Marianne Moore
#36. If the subject is neither fully determined by power nor fully determining of power ... the subject exceeds the logic of non contradiction, is an excrescence of logic, as it were.
Judith Butler
#38. I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!
Anita Moorjani
#39. What we have to realize is that we are part of the crisis, and we are determining the outcome; our actions, at a personal level as well as a planetary level, are part of the solution. If we do nothing then disaster could be the final outcome.
Ernesto Ortiz
#40. Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
Hilaire Belloc
#41. The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior
Kenneth E. Boulding
#42. We overlook just how large a role we all play
and by 'we' I mean society
in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
Malcolm Gladwell
#43. Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir
#44. It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.
Theodore Plucknett
#45. Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
Matt Taibbi
#46. Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.
Elana K. Arnold
#47. When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
Robert Kagan
#48. The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.
Timothy Keller
#49. If there could be . . . a cause determining a person to benevolence towards the whole world of mankind . . . exclusive of . . . love to God, . . . it cannot be of the nature of true virtue."42
John Piper
#50. Determining dreams is the business of God, But He might let me know what it means, what you saw.
Brian M. Boyce
#51. If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.
Grover Cleveland
#52. The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.
Milton Friedman
#53. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.
Dava Sobel
#54. Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
Joe Jamail
#55. Timing of creation of AVF and AVG is important in determining use of VA in prevalent HD patients. KDOQI recommends creation of AVF when either creatinine clearance is less than 25 mL/min, creatinine is 4 mg/dL, or initiation of HD is expected within 1 year.
Arif Asif
#56. Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.
Mark Steyn
#57. A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
Calvin Coolidge
#58. Jane easily shifts among activities - testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#59. The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.
David Perlmutter
#60. According to the Word of the Lord, we are called but we have the choice of determining our destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
Alex Trebek
#62. The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.
Dolores Hayden
#63. How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.
Van Day Truex
#64. Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
Ken Livingstone
#65. one of the primary factors in determining your energy level, and therefore your mood, is what you've eaten recently.*
Scott Adams
#66. My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
Susan Barker
#67. The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
#68. Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
#69. X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution.
Derek Harold Richard Barton
#70. Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.
Hal Elrod
#71. The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
Booker T. Washington
#72. In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#73. The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.
Daniel Kahneman
#74. She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
Gail Carriger
#75. Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
Don Kardong
#76. Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
George Ryan
#77. You didn't see what just happened. I did. Saw it, felt it, tasted it." His hand gripped and squeezed her thigh as if determining its strength. "You came so hard you nearly crushed my skull between your legs. If I wasn't so hardheaded, I'd be dead.
Shay Rucker
#78. Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
Le Corbusier
#79. PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model ... The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.
Herbert Simon
#81. Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
#82. I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.
Richard Attenborough
#83. Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.
Peter L. Berger
#84. Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.
Marvin Ammori
#85. When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.
Walter Isaacson
#86. The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
Ron Kind
#87. If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
Albert Einstein
#88. They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.
Gary Keller
#89. Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting
Sunday Adelaja
#90. The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
Cornel West
#91. Most women guard their hearts by determining to not need others.
Catrina Welch
#92. The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy ...
Alan Grayson
#93. The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.
Francis Turretin
#95. What was the determining factor in a person's death - the key that allowed some to move on, and held others hostage in a world that no longer had a place for them? "Here
Diane Ryan
#96. I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come from inside me. Once I know my value is set and absolute, I can accept love and validation from others, and believe it.
Kimberly Giles
#97. A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#98. Be the determining factor of your success - define it and own it
Joe Evener
#99. The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.
Stathis Kouvelakis
#100. Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
Stephen Ambrose
