Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toks Olagundoye

Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.

Sojourner Truth

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

Norman Finkelstein

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Norman Cousins

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Norman Cousins

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

Norbert Wiener

I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.

Norbert Wiener

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Mike Tyson

Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.

John Newman

I think positivity also brings determination and wanting to explore more and wanting to do more with your life. Because if you come to that point of having to think about your life in that way you don't want it to be negative.

John O. Brennan

You always debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person that you're working for your best judgment based on your understanding of the facts, but also the calculus you use to make a determination about what's the best way to go forward.

John Templeton

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

Terence

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Nigel Worthington

If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

Nicki Minaj

Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins

Nicki Minaj

Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi

John Wooden

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

John Ruskin

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

Max von Laue

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.

Matt Blunt

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

LeBron James

I just bring the determination to win.

Philip Sidney

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Petra Kelly

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...

Pharrell Williams

As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea.

Peter Arnett

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Maurice Saatchi

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

Maurice Saatchi

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Maya Angelou

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

Maya Angelou

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Mason Cooley

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

Mary Kay Ash

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Mary Kay Ash

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

Michael Arad

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.