#deter

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#absence #adult #between #bond #child

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#before #being #determined #discovery #divided

My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me. ↗

— Ed Koch

#body #brain #deteriorating #difference #good

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. ↗

— Dale Turner

#being #determined #everything #influence #length

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#broadcast #candid #combative #determined #done

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. ↗

— David Wenham

#crazy #deterioration #find #finishes #humanity

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused. ↗

— Shaun White

#bad #bad performance #come #determined #event

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me. ↗

— Robert K. Massie

#coming-of-age #independence #intelligence #marriage #matrimony

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#determined #i #made #me #mind

Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not meaningful, but neither is coercion; it's simply a different context, no more or less valid than the other. It's like that famous optical illusion, the drawing of either an elegant young woman, face turned away from the viewer, or a wart-nosed crone, chin tucked down on her chest. There's no “correct” interpretation; both are equally valid. But you can't see both at the same time. “Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#determinism #free-will #age