Predetermined Quotes

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

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Realization

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ‎"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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• 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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• Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

  Harold Kerzner

  Art, Creating, Dumb

  Harold Kerzner (2009). “Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Baby, Learning

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Motivation, Emotional, Self

  "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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• Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

  Donella Meadows

  Views, World, Evolution

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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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• The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

  Arnold Gesell

  Baby, Children, Selfish

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Writing, Fate

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Russia, Mutual Attraction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.

  Richard Grossman

  Real, Player, Thinking

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• I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

  Jason Bateman

  Responsibility, Color, Style

  "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.

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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 know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Destiny

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• Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.

  John Pfahl

  Views, Years, Ideas

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