Determined Quotes
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
Zane Grey -
When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
Victoria Strauss
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
Alan Johnson -
I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honour and that of his country, Victory or death.
William B. Travis -
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
Louis Armstrong -
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Abraham Lincoln -
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
William Hazlitt
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I’m determined to shoot a gorilla, or prove him to be a myth.
R. M. Ballantyne -
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.
Anthony Robbins -
The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
Brian Tracy -
I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee process where there are both independent committee members and representation from the RBI.
Urjit Patel -
The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.
Archie Griffin -
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William James
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
Freya Stark -
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
Brian Tracy -
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
Tony Kushner -
The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Russell Baker -
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
Brian Tracy
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Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
Joanne Rowling -
Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin -
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.
G. E. M. Anscombe