Determines Quotes

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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.

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.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

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

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

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.

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?

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

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.