Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

I don't think 45 -- I think it's a number out of the sky. I think you have to look at individual lakes separately and determine that.

I'd take five of him, with his determination and work ethic.

I am very proud of each and every one of my players. They all played a terrific match. Winning those three-set matches takes determination and heart and my players showed that today.

Alexander Hleb

I am very happy at Arsenal. I love playing Premier League football, this is an exciting opportunity for me and I am determined to do well here.

Sadaharu Oh

I am proud that Japan is the strongest team in Asia. We are determined to go through at the top.

I don't think they think of themselves as freshmen. They're determined to hold up their end of the bargain, and so far they've done that.

He's never missed a beat, and he's done a terrific job since. ...Just a great guy: tough, gritty, determined to get things done.

How he plays is going to determine how far we go, absolutely.

How long he takes and how good a job he does determines the profitability of his company. I have three years of graduate study in mathematics at MIT, and I couldn't do that job.

How many big plays can you look at? - A fake punt, 97-yard run and an interception for a touchdown. Three snaps determined the outcome of the game.

How well we wrestle (today) will determine how well we wrestle at the national tournament. We want to get to the nationals any way we can.

How these next several months play out will determine whether or not these institutions make it or not. The most sensitive question is whether or not they can keep their students, because these institutions are so tuition-driven.

Mitch Kupchak

How teams are going to use that league will not be determined this year.

Jerry Bailey

He's immensely talented, but I haven't even thought about that, ... I'm not going to let one horse here or there determine that. I'm just going to get through the Breeders' Cup, and in November, I'll sit down and think about it.

John Smoltz

I don't need a game to determine anything about a pitch. This is what I've been through my whole career.

Eddie Jordan

Caron is as tough as they come. It was his will and determination that won the game for us. He forced his will upon the game, and other guys really stepped up.

Howard Thurman

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Howard Bloom

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Harold Rosenberg

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Jalal Talabani

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Jalal Talabani

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Jaime Pressly

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

Jacques Chirac

The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

Jacques Derrida

A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.

Jackie Chan

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

Iyanla Vanzant

Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.

Immanuel Kant

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

Immanuel Kant

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

Elon Musk

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Milarepa

The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master, with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.