Predetermined Quotes

50 quotes by 48 authors

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do.Â It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're… — Chris Jericho
Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact,… — Harold Kerzner
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for… — Nayef Al-Rodhan
The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula — Rick Joyner
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you… — Nicholas Lore
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.Â Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to… — Ivan Illich
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems… — Ivan Illich
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a… — Alan Lightman
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined… — Jane Brody
Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before… — Bruce Kovner
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able… — Daniel Kahikina Akaka
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer... — Deborah Ann Woll
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call… — Frantz Fanon
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in… — D. V. Ager
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. — Paul J. Meyer
Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already… — Shaun White

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