Determination Quotes - Page 27

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  I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

  Jerry Rice

  Giving Up, Attitude, Hard Work

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Attitude, Differences

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• Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

  Robert Musil

  Life, Intellectual, Doe

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, World, Vastness

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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• ... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

  June Jordan

  Blood, Self, History

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, War, Practice

  Kellogg-Briand Pact Speech at Wausau, Wisconsin, www.drpsychotic.com. August 15, 1928.

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• Day after day, throughout the winter,
  We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason
  In a world of wind and frost.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Wind, Frost

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.124, Vintage

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• The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Skills, America

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• The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

  Franz Kafka

  Self, Cosmos, Mixtures

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Mind, Quality

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Practice, Light, Sublime

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.

  Susan Faludi

  Children, Self, Feminist

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Death, Lying, Persistence

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.

  Michel Foucault

  Exercise, People, History

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Time, Jobs, Writing

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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Money, Men, Yield

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• For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Jobs, Party

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• Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

  Charles M. Blow

  Destiny, Leader, World

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• Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

  Booker T. Washington

  Waiting

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• All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots.
  Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.

  Luke Jensen

  Pain, Distance, Adversity

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Wind, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

  Taylor Mali

  Believe

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.39, Penguin

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• All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

  Carl L. Becker

  Persistence, History, Bias

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• Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

  Robert Zuppke

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Coaching

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