Quotes About Determining

Outcomes don't tell us what's our fault and what isn't, what we should take credit for and what we shouldn't. Unlike in chess, we can't simply work backward from the quality of the outcome to determine the quality of our beliefs or decisions. This makes learning from outcomes a pretty haphazard process.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

Most people use the terms morality and ethics interchangeably. Technically, morality refers to the actual content of right and wrong, and ethics refers to the process of determining right and wrong. In other words, morality deals with moral knowledge and ethics with moral reasoning.

The determinable substratum of potentiality is what in Aristotelian philosophy of nature is meant by the term "matter," and a determining pattern that exists once the potential is actualized is called a "form.

Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

The process of determining if the misbehavior was getting something the student wanted or was avoiding something he didn't want is called functional behavioral assessment or analysis (FBA).

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

Harold Laswell's famous definition of politics as a social process determining "who gets what, when, and how," there can be little doubt that chimpanzees engage in it. Since in both humans and their closest relatives the process involves bluff, coalitions, and isolation tactics, a common terminology is warranted.

to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...

People, it seemed, were always allowing jealousy, sadness, anger, and pride to determine their behavior. So much suffering was caused by misunderstandings and erroneous perceptions about one another.

It is very difficult to isolate a single cause when there are plenty around.

From the unconscious there emanate determining influences…which, independently of tradition, guarantee in every single individual a similarity and even a sameness of experience, and also of the way it is represented imaginatively.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

In other words, the budget process is not about figuring out how much each activity gets, but about determining which activities best support the Hedgehog Concept and should be fully strengthened and which should be eliminated entirely.

Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience.

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

Stan's well-meaning but misguided loyalty to "sorting things out," that is, to determining the one right reality about it (which was, of course, his), deprived them both of moments like the one they are having now in my office: moments of repair.

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?