Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Garry Kasparov

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Heinrich Boll

If you want to do something... get up and actually do it!

Henry Ford

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Tom Vilsack

I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.

Tom Monaghan

No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals.

Todd Akin

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Joseph Lowery

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Marilyn Monroe

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Nicki Minaj

Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take

Nicki Minaj

Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

Nicki Minaj

Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime

Nicki Minaj

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

Nicki Minaj

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

Nicki Minaj

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

Mother Teresa

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

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.

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.

All of them (the players) just sticking at it and never conceding and showing real determination.

Eckhart Tolle

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

The market seems to be determined to pass 70 dollars.

The mentality of this team is to look at any situation like this and just step out with a determination to win the day, and that?s what they did.

Hermann Hesse

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Henri Nouwen

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

James Redfield

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.