Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

A hearing has to be scheduled and a determination would be made about whether it should remain listed.

You've got to have room to run, but it's a whole offensive unit thing, ... We have to be determined to make up our mind that we're going to get done.

All things being equal, you want people that want to play for you. The determination is, what does he have left in his game?

All the things that occurred that resulted in the determination ... occurred in another administration.

Filippo Inzaghi

The key was our heart, determination. At one moment we thought we were out. Then I had some good luck on that rebound from the post.

These kids don't have the same drive and determination that I did.

These guys represent the epitome of determination and hard work. They go to places like Phoenix to practice, their parents make 160-mile round trips ? they do what it takes.

These freshmen are determined and relentless, and they're just going to get better and better.

Paulo Freire

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

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.

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.

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 Carroll

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

Jimmy Fallon

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.

Georg Simmel

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

Garry Kasparov

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.