Determines Quotations

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced by a man carry either an X or a Y. This means, in very simple terms, that the sperm cell determines a baby's sex.

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

I think the ability to hit - some guys have it and some guys don't - but I think how dedicated you are to trying to get the most out of yourself, I think kind of determines how good you are and for how long. I was born with the ability to hit, but my work ethic has taken it to the next level.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Nature ultimately determines what will come out. The conditions last year were evidently congenial for good survival.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction

Nothing determines your creative life more than doing it.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

Simply defined, a residual value is the amount of money for which you could buy a car at the end of a lease term and it's a major part of the mathematical equation that determines what your monthly payments will ultimately be.

The price of oil is acting as a natural drag on the U.S. economy and the global economy. It creates a great deal of investor uncertainty, ... as earnings reports start coming in, it's going to be what companies tell us about the next three quarters that determines if investors get off the sidelines.

The P.R.I.D.E. board determines where (the money) goes. They allocate it.

Kerwin said how you bounce back determines your character.

From what I'm told going hard in practice is what determines how much playing time you get. I'll just get up there and work hard and hopefully I'll get in there.

If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

What we eat determines how well our digestion works,

What you do as a family, that determines your character and what kind of person you're going to be. We can either lay down and we can accept this or we can get back up and fight. I told them I choose to fight and I believe they're going to choose to fight.

If the State Legislature determines that it wants these projects to move ahead and commits to that by requiring utilities to pay producers for their power, then they'll take off. If not, it's going to be very difficult to make digesters operational in California.

If the home builders are doing badly, it shows the housing market is slowing down. Whatever happens to them determines how much the consumer will have to spend for the holiday season.

If the council determines not to approve the funding, we assume that will be consistent with a decision not to complete the investigation.

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Under Irish law, the Company is required to obtain the approval of its shareholders to buy back its own shares. The Board, believing it to be in the best interests of the shareholders and the Company, agreed that the Company should request this approval to provide the Company with the flexibility to buy back shares if it determines that the benefits associated with such a program can be realized.

Players have absolutely nothing to do with ticket prices. We had nothing to do with the recent decision to charge for Web broadcasts. These are management decisions, which management makes based on what each club or central baseball determines is the economic condition of the country and each market.

I think what y'all do is vital to our community. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think the square foot (of a house) determines the characteristic of a neighborhood. I hope this passes tonight. One-size-fits-all may have been appropriate at one time, but now we may be in a situation where one size doesn't fit anymore.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

It determines who's thinking the best, who's the most patient, who's more determined.

Our Business Research Group survey of 55,000 corporate travelers around the world addressed many more issues, such as call-barring, data services and silent periods, and the interesting question for long-haul flights as to what determines a 'night' period, ... It might be easy on north-south routes, such as Europe to South Africa, but much more difficult on Asia-Europe flights. It may be an 1100 departure from Tokyo to Frankfurt, but we all know the cabin blinds are down and lights out within two to three hours of departure, thereby constituting an artificial 'night' period.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

It doesnt matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.

It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own imaginary Destiny that the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one, the Matrix Word of Love is a God of man, because the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one is the attribute of the Matrix Word of Creation and determines the image of Knowledge, it is a stranger to existence even if he determines it. It is a stranger and it is outside the existence because the Existence becomes a mere Personalisation of the Person, and the existence, just like other personalizations before it, has a infinity of opposites, and our Creating Factor which is Love, determines this infinity of opposites of the existence, thus making whole the infinite worlds of Knowledge, worlds of The Image, worlds of reflection, worlds with DESTINY!

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

We have the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. How we do there determines what we get in the regional tournament. Hopefully we can keep it going.

The quality of one's feelings determines one's future.

The present system says the town determines the fair market value, which is a very expensive to assess, ... But the IOU's can respond with a much higher figure if they don't like what the town has offered, and that's the price we have to take.

When you're first learning a skill, the brain determines what muscles are needed and when. Through practicing the skill, a mental 'blueprint' is created.

We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.

There are Democrats everywhere, ... We need a message. It has to be clear. The framing of the debate determines who wins the debate. Running away from issues is how you lose elections.

The rapidity of particle flow alone determines power.

We worked all year to get home-ice advantage and now that's not the case. We've lost it now. I've always thought Game 1 is one of the most important games of a series. It determines who takes control, who's in the driver's seat.

We'll start the spring with Chris Olsen; he'll be the first guy to go into the huddle. Kevin McCabe will follow him in. And that's the way it is and that's the way it's going to stay until performance by any of the quarterbacks determines otherwise. What have we not covered there?

We accomplished a lot of goals at this event. Playing a competitive round shakes off some rust and determines our strengths and weaknesses. This gives us some direction for our upcoming match in Dallas on Saturday.

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Everybody was to blame. You have a chance to win on the road, and the last 10 possessions, you don't get many stops. That's what it comes down to. Forget everything that happened the first 40 minutes of the game. The last 10, 15 possessions, that really determines how this game adds up.

The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live.

Traffic, access, noise, residential protests are problems with outdoor amphitheatres, especially those like White River that are built in rural areas. The traffic issues have to be resolved because ultimately, it's the customer experience that determines whether White River is successful in the long term.

As the ball penetrates each wall, it fixes a point and plots that against the next point. It determines in a 4-foot range how fast the ball is going, the trajectory of the ball, and somewhat the curvature of the ball. It's very accurate, and I would consider it to be a consistent machine.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

The starters get you there, and then the bullpen determines the outcome. The majority of the games are very close. It seems like it doesn't matter how good your offense is.

The Wood Brothers' car and ours are the only one-car teams in the top 25 (in points), and I'm very confident that we'll be able to stay there. It's not about how many cars you field that determines where you'll finish, it's how well prepared each of those cars are, and I believe we're as well prepared as most.

The waters in the Gulf of Mexico are warm, but so are the waters in the eastern Atlantic. But the water temperature isn't the controlling factor in whether a hurricane maintains its strength. Wind shear still determines whether a storm will strengthen or weaken before it hits land.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

We don't yet know what factors determine whether people with this genetic variation do or don't end up with dyslexia, ... A host of environmental and genetic influences likely influences or determines whether somebody with this particular genetic variation ends up being dyslexic or not. And until the nature of some of those other influences is fully specified, we won't know what it means to say to somebody that their 5-year-old child has this particular genetic endowment.

Vitamin D's main role is to keep the balance of calcium and phosphorous in the blood, which helps keep bones strong. However, a lesser-known role is how it regulates cell growth and determines what a cell becomes. A vitamin D deficiency may allow cells to become cancerous rather than becoming healthy cells.

There is no state law which determines the exact level of response to an action of a suspect. The officer has to use his judgment.

We wanted to ensure we did a thorough and complete job of collecting the evidence, because it's the thorough completeness of that evidence that determines the success of charges.

To win a state championship every year, no doubt about it. It really determines if you've had a successful season or not. It's a good thing. The kids expect to win. It's what the town expects.

Once we got in the game mentally and started playing a little bit better defense, we were fine. Our defense determines the way we play offensively.

That's what really determines what the quality of life is there.

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

Although I've never pressed sexual harassment charges against him, I guess a lot of it comes from the fact that you can't stand up to somebody who determines whether or not you are on the team.

Almost every year, it's what happens in the consolations that determines the eventual team champion. That will probably be the case this weekend.

There's going to be two video boards on the center court that will be visible by the players, the chair umpire and all the spectators. Once a challenge is made, then the review official that's with the technicians, once he determines that the correct impact has been identified, gives the order to release the video to the boards. Then everybody will see the result at the same time. The entire process will take less than 10 seconds.

We've deferred this case pending investigation and testing. We're going to wait until the Kettering Fire Department determines the cause of the fire.

This Trojan isn't trying to steal money or confidential information, but acting as a moral guardian instead, blocking viewing of sites it determines are unsavory,

This game really determines a lot for our future. That's a huge motivation for us. We know we can't lose this game. We have to go in there with the state of mind that we've got to win this game. We've got to have that in the back of our minds every snap, every play.

Additionally, how successful a cover crop is established also determines how much nitrogen is captured.

You need probable cause or 51 percent belief a person has committed a crime. Once you pass that stage, you might arrest them and hold them. Then you can continue the investigation, collect information and get paperwork done, and the prosecutor determines if a charge will be made or not. Without charges, the person has to be let go.

Your credit report is your passport to your essential financial information. Increasingly, what's in your credit report determines whether you'll get credit and how much you'll pay for it.

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this.

This is no time for us to panic or get tight. Every team has to deal with this kind of thing at some point in the season. It's how you deal with it that determines where you go.

The nature of the food determines the nature of one' s thoughts,feelings and actions.

In Illinois, more than any other state, where you live determines what type of education you can get.

if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.

I'm just focused on the team and focused on this being my 'money' year. This is the year that determines whether I go to the NFL (in 2006).

In the end it will be the market which determines the outcome and there is sufficient price tension to suggest another increase but to what degree remains uncertain.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

It's potentially the economic situation that determines the people in the middle.

I think our guys have a handle on the fact that while the national championship is a goal, what work you do today determines whether you have a chance at that or not. And so I think they're a pretty focused group on living for the moment, getting better.

It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

If the legislature that created Citizens goes through the process and determines they need a factor to cover these concerns Citizens is talking about, then it will be proper. I don't think it's up to Citizens' board to decide that.