Top 100 Quotes About Predetermined
#1. Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
Jennifer Lee
#2. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.
Sean Michael Hayes
#3. I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole
#4. Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.
Jane Brody
#5. The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.
Russell Kyle
#6. I'm not sure I buy into the idea that my life is predetermined and I just have to wait for it to unfold." "I think it's more like you have a purpose to fulfill but you're free to embrace it or not.
T.H. Hernandez
#7. Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.
Anne Rice
#9. You are being different just for the sake of being different, you can always come down in the morning with a sock in your mouth.' When you are strategically creative, everything you say or do is different but also meets a predetermined purpose.
Pavan Choudary
#10. No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable.
Julie Tetel Andresen
#11. Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds - working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment - and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.
David Bayles
#12. that a lot of what happens in our lives is predetermined and that the only way forward is to accept what has happened and to move on. Who knew, perhaps what destiny had in store would be better than what one is grieving over now.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#13. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
Earl Nightingale
#14. We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
Milan Kundera
#15. Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.
John Green
#16. The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.
Alison Miller
#18. what does it mean, our being free to make decisions, if our behavior does nothing but follow the predetermined laws of nature?
Carlo Rovelli
#19. I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction.
Thea Euryphaessa
#20. The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.
Hal Elrod
#22. So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.
Chelsey Philpot
#24. I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
Daniel Akaka
#25. Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living.
John N. Gray
#26. Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free will even though the consequences of our will are predictable.
Dean Koontz
#27. As we open up our church meetings to God's power, they will not always follow a predetermined schedule or order. Who can outline what God might have in mind?
Jim Cymbala
#29. The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula
Rick Joyner
#30. But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy
Jennifer Gold
#32. As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
M.J. Rose
#33. A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#35. People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.
They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments.
Lilith Saintcrow
#36. A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.
Burt Rutan
#37. A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.
Carl Jung
#38. True freewill must and should never be predetermined and thus no one should have the ability to know beforehand the choice that a person would make.
Abaha Saagar
#39. There are no coincidences in life. Our paths cross with those predetermined to help guide us to our destiny.
-Shane
Rc Woods
#40. A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
John Barton
#42. Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner
John Green
#44. A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
Alan Moore
#45. I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Seneca The Younger
#46. The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.
Joseph Nye
#47. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
Patrick Stewart
#48. The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
Nikola Tesla
#49. Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.
Robert Kurson
#50. In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.
Robert Kane Pappas
#51. Your destiny is not predetermined, It is determined by the choices you make and those you choose not to make.
Deon Potgieter
#52. Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history.
Dejan Stojanovic
#53. Knowledge is not predetermined by heredity; it is not predetermined in the things around us - in knowing things around him the subject always adds to them.
Jean Piaget
#54. Truth is there is not a right or predetermined age for success; only people who finally decide to succeed. Age is in your mind!
Mauricio Chaves Mesen
#55. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#56. Perhaps there is a predetermined time for each person's life, and we should be happy for the time we had.
Courtney Sheinmel
#57. Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.
David F. Swensen
#58. God has a plan and a predetermined place on earth and in the Kingdom of God for every one of us
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.
Shaun White
#61. His weakness in this game, and in life, is that he's never prepared for how others will act. They are predetermined but too complex to solve or predict, and there are rules that he is just no good at applying.
Janna Levin
#62. Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.
Harold Kerzner
#63. Everything should be predetermined through careful planning or thought.
Steven Redhead
#64. Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
Kurt Angle
#65. All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
Margaret Weis
#66. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.
Feist
#67. So, here's the short version of my predetermined biblical procedure manual all in one place: Alarmed, I resolve to remember who I am. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Stay in the flow - my job is obedience; God's job is results. Shift from an attitude to gratitude. My reactions determine my reach.
Lysa TerKeurst
#68. If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.
Mark Helprin
#69. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#70. Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#71. Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
Oswald Chambers
#72. When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne Bronte
#73. If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.
Linda Darling-Hammond
#74. Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.
Theognis
#75. Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.
Donella Meadows
#76. The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.
Eric Foner
#77. There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#78. Games are never over because you think them so! Which is why I like you. Are you doing what you want to do...or are you simply another piece of a darkened puzzle? Your own actions predetermined by powers higher than yourself?
LaTorre Mays
#79. There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.
Akemi G
#80. What you are destined to become is not revealed now but it is predetermined.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#81. An aura of fate had marked him. He moved slowly; he often appeared to be lost in thought, or in his imagination - as if his future were predetermined, and he wasn't resisting it.
John Irving
#82. Of course there are teachers who can teach a subject, in a set order, using predetermined phrases, but there aren't many who can adjust their teaching to the abilities and tendencies of their pupils and explain things in their own individual way. Maybe hardly any at all.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. God predetermined the destiny of my life, the moment I was conceived in my mothers womb. All the distractions of life, never prevented God to fulfill His purpose for my life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
Alfred North Whitehead
#86. A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.
Earl Nightingale
#87. That's what we both hate about fiction, or at least crappy fiction - it purports to provide occasions for thinking through complex issues, but really it has predetermined the positions, stuffed a narrative full of false choices, and hooked you on them, rendering you less able to see out, to get out.
Maggie Nelson
#88. Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
Karl Popper
#89. I just get a feeling sometimes that everything is predetermined, and I am going through the motions of tracing an existence that will be what it will already be.
Reif Larsen
#90. Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can never be a sculpture. It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts - or predetermined form - it cannot fly.
Peter Matthiessen
#91. All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.
Harvey MacKay
#92. When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.
Steve Carell
#93. It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.
Abbas Kiarostami
#94. A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer ...
Deborah Ann
#96. When your fate is predetermined, there's not much benefit in coddling.
Amy Engel
#97. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.
John O'Donohue
#99. Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn't fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction ought to be.
Therese Anne Fowler
#100. The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
Tom Stoppard
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