Determines Quotes

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.