Quotes About Determine

It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

When I was a medical student, a pulmonary professor of mine cajoled me into joining a clinical trial that she was running. The general aim of the tests was to determine whether prolonged periods of short and shallow breathing would cause a person's lungs to go into spasm. It turns out, as I can attest, that they do.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.

12. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

I had some information and some noise, and needed only to determine what was information and what was noise, and then determine which parts of me I should ignore and which I should listen to.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.

The main function of myth is to determine the exemplar models of all ritual, and of all significant human acts.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

tú decides qué entra y que no.

A veces hay que elegir en la vida, y a veces la vida te elige a ti.

Freedom of the will is of a wholly unique nature in that an incentive can determine the will to an action only so far as the individual has incorporated it into his maxim (has made it the general rule in accordance with which he will conduct himself); only thus can an incentive, whatever it may be, co-exist with the absolute spontaneity of the will (i.e., freedom).

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

The quality and quantity of the service you render, plus the attitude with which you render it, determine the amount of pay you get and the sort of job you hold.

I like to choose. I have to care.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.