It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers
Oftentimes in life, we can only determine our actions; not the outcome.
The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
If you're determined to face death, then you'll find away to live.
The difference between possible and impossible is simply determination.
It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
a 'possibility' is indeterminate enough to determine how possible it is used to be .
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philan...
The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron itself, but rather an assembly of neurons, which I estimate to number around a hundred. The wiring and synaptic strengths w...
[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused abou...
One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil,...
Self-protection keeps you from love, Mr. Knightley-all love. I am so sad at how I've kept them at a distance-the Muirs, Alex, Father John, Kyle, Hannah...Anyone and everyone who has ever stood by me. I played God in our relationships. I determined th...
The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines the distance travelled in a given figure. One sets the pace...
I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travl...
Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us. The liberation implied by such awareness ...
For Time calls only once, and that determines all.
Be determined enough to live for your dreams.
Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.