Predetermined Quotes

• A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Destiny, Men

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• The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.

  Karl Popper

  Future, Mean, Science

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• People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Two, People, Upset

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Together, Way, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mean, Hands, Difficult Situations

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• Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you depend on your options to formulate your future, that future will be no more than a rearrangement of your past. Then he says, “Possibilities are completely different. When you ask ‘what is possible?’ you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not ‘what are my options?’ but ‘What is possible?’

  Nicholas Lore

  Past, Views, Data

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• Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Realization

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• It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Responsibility, Everything Happens For A Reason, Perspective

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 08, 2010

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• It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Crush, Destiny, Said

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• My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Science, Expectations

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• ‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

  M.J. Rose

  Running, Oedipus, Running Away

  M. J. Rose (2015). “The Reincarnationist”, p.95, MIRA

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• Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

  Jeff Olson

  Fate, Exercise, Greatness

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

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• All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

  Harvey Mackay

  Long, Periods, Plans

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• When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

  Steve Carell

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. July, 2013.

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• The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

  Joseph Nye

  Country, People, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Mean, Reality, Piano

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

  Alan Moore

  Growing Up, Hands, World

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• The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula

  Rick Joyner

  Moving, Lord, Formulas

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• Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Kings, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Psychology of Redemption: Making All Things New”, p.67, Discovery House

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• A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Trams

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• In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

  Ivan Illich

  Motivation, School, Opportunity

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Artist, America

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Color, Opposites

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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