Determines Quotes

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

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

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

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.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

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.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

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

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

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.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

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.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.