Determined Quotes
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.
Henry Louis Gates
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
Benjamin Carson
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I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
Ricky Ponting
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We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.
Tilda Swinton
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We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
Alan Johnson
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
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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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I felt good out there. A bit nervous, but determined and positive.
Sasha Cohen
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I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
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There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes
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I could see my pitch count, so I determined that I would get a strikeout no matter what.
Daisuke Matsuzaka
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I’m determined to shoot a gorilla, or prove him to be a myth.
R. M. Ballantyne
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Oscar Wilde
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
William Wilberforce
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Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose
Bruce Kovner
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At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.
Quentin S. Crisp
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...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
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Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin
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The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.
Dr. John
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In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter
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If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
Erno Rubik
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Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Russell Baker