Top 111 Determines Quotes

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I’m my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta is always broad. If Trump said it was the best, it was average. If he said something was the finest, it typically included a spray-painted gold veneer.

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don’t understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they’re very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that’s left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?

Sacks shouldn’t be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

If there’s any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it’s show business. You can plan and plan, but it’s what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally – without indicating color or ethnicity – more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

What one does in one’s club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Democracy is not theater – it determines life and death!

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rural economies, would be devastated.

It’s more like individually how lucky and talented you are, that combination determines how successful you will be.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat – or mistreat – them determines how long your doors stay open.

Regarding my attire, I choose whatever I feel is most flattering at the time. That can be jeans dressed up to a nice dinner or a dress at home for a casual night. In other words, thin days and chubby days are what determines what I wear.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It’s what you do with those that determines how successful you’re going to be.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you’ll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are – and who we will become.

It’s learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy – whether it’s for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

He’s a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That’s what determines a great player. That’s what Steven Gerrard is.

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there’s only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I’ve done in my whole life.

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

As a defender, how much ground I cover isn’t up to me. I’m defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.

Our moral philosophy determines our values – what we care about and what we don’t care about – and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.