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• Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Confidence, Attitude, Choices

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

  Leon Trotsky

  Gratitude, Grateful, Jealous

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• We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Principles

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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• The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Listening, Might

  Adam Gopnik (2009). “Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life”, p.142, Vintage

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• It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Kind, Situation

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram (p. 205), 1974.

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

  Charles Lenox Remond

  Hands, Speech, Speak

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• The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.

  Nancy Kline

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Believe, Thinking, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.13, Moody Publishers

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• In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Direct Action, Campaigns

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Gratitude, Attitude

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• A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Causes, Chance

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• I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

  Charlie Rose

  Animal, Kingdoms, Willing

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• There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Art, Government, Literature

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

  Roger Caillois

  Dream, Reflection, Assuming

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

  Derek Prince

  Character, Achievement, Eternity

  Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books

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• I used to hold a fiery wind
  and I tried to determine the direction
  where poetry would fly.

  Alda Merini

  Wind, Used, Fiery

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Past, Opportunity

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

  Jon Gordon

  Believe, Optimism, Focus

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

  Jon Gordon

  Optimism, Today, Impossible Becomes Possible

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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