#mines

No student 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. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#blatantly #bringing #contains #enemy #face

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. ↗

— George Eastman

#during #hours #leisure #our #working

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation? ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#correct #depending #determines #everybody #follow

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#ability #capable #determines #doing #how

Attitude determines the altitude of life. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#altitude #determines #life

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#climbing #determines #efficiency #ladder #leadership