Determined Quotes - Page 31

• I`m determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

  Joe Manchin

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.

  Chaka Khan

  Serious, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

  Paul Westerberg

  Jobs, Stupid, Musician

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

  Richard Branson

  Teenager, Moon, Space

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, War, Heart

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.8, e-artnow

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• Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'

  Annie Smith Peck

  Suicide, Depressing, Home

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• Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Government, Blood

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• The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Philosophy, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.79, Psychology Press

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• The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Way, Workers

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• [We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Rights, Government

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• I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wall, Moving, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Russia, Government, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

  Jackie Gleason

  Children

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• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  Otto Weininger

  Reality, Doe, Genius

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

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• Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Needs, Sitting

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.29, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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• I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis... I never think about [stop vulnerability], because the point about a technical barrier - and I've studied the technical aspects of the market for a long time - is that the market shouldn't go there if you are right.

  Bruce Kovner

  Sleep, Thinking, People

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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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

  Dollars, Trade, Maximum

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• Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

  Charlie Trotter

  Fighting, Interesting, Excellence

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• He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

  Beth Moore

  Joy, Pursue, Knows

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• When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there'll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you.

  Beth Moore

  Determination, Destiny, Add

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• A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Order, One Day, Domain

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• I was determined not to remain poor.

  Marshall Field

  Poor

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• Draft resisters have had and should continue to have only normal difficulties immigrating [to Canada]. Probably any young American can get in if he is really determined, though all will need adequate information. ... The toughest problem a draft resister faces is not how to immigrate but whether he really wants to. And only you can answer that. For yourself. That's what Nuremberg was all about.

  Mark Satin

  Needs, Answers, Adequate

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