Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.
It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.
If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.
Choose good friends. Friends help to determine your future. You will tend to be like them and to be found where they choose to go. Remember, the path we follow in this life leads to the path we follow in the next.
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.
Your field of focus determines what you find in life.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.
Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.
Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.