If a person is
If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure. Earl Nightingale
Predetermined
What I call middle-class
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 middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who … Read more
I had to let
I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there’s no more fluidity to time. Feist
Even though we all
Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren’t predetermined. Deepak Chopra
It is said that
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer. Deborah Ann Woll
Practicing yoga is a
Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there’s great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana. David F. Swensen
No event for the
No event for the Koyukon – or for most other indigenous peoples – is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an … Read more
I do not believe,
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 to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war. Daniel Kahikina Akaka
I’m not a believer
I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join … Read more
In the preface to
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 history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … It … Read more