James Heckman

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

American Economist

Nicolas Berggruen

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

American Businessman

Martin Seligman

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

American Psychologist

Steven Pinker

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Canadian Scientist

Dave deBronkart

In my book, 'Let Patients Help,' one chapter is titled 'Let patients vote on what's worth the cost.' That's sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.

American Writer

Eileen Pollack

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

American Novelist

Sally Mann

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

American Photographer

Albert Bandura

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

Canadian Psychologist

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

American Politician

Nate Silver

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

The term extends beyond cause to include factors that might not directly instigate, but still affect outcomes.

Beyond Cause

Determine its meaning by looking for context clues that indicate its role in shaping a situation.

Context Clues

Determinants can be negative; they're not always positive influences or causes.

Not Always Positive

In math, determinants are specific to square matrices, not any other type of number group.

Specific to Squares

A determinant can indicate if a set of linear equations has a unique solution, no solution, or infinite solutions.

Indicator of Solutions

The value of a determinant changes with certain operations performed on the matrix, like swapping rows.

Changes with Operations

As an adjective, it underscores the powerful impact of one component on another.

Powerful Impact

Determinant influences are often underlying forces not immediately visible.

Typically Unseen

 never be the sole determinant of childbirth or motherhood all women need access to prenatal care and child birth information pregnant women need to be in the care of a compassionate and skilled health care provider at the time of delivery the minute the baby is delivered in post part the postpartum

Caring for maternal...

 how well a person reacts to the inevitability of change, and lots of it. That's the single most important determinant for me. I subscribe to the belief that adaptability itself is a form of intelligence, and our adaptability quotient, or AQ, is something that can be measured, tested and improved.

3 ways to measure your...

 From new forms of data to help prediction of prevention to faster diagnostics, more tailored therapy and increasingly crowdsourced discovery. Let's start with prevention. Now, while our genomes impact our health outcomes and our health spans, our social determinants of health,

Daniel Kraft: How...

 aviation to come back to what makes people happy obviously he found something barren can found something that made him happy is that a key is it finding a purpose a purpose is a key but actually the biggest determinant when when we did this worldwide sort of meta

Stories of Exploration...

 So I hope I've left you with a better appreciation, a new appreciation of all of your voices and the role it plays inside and outside of you -- as your voice is a very critical determinant of what makes you humans and of how you interact with the world.

Why you don’t like the...

 While we must address social determinants of health if we're ever going to truly have equitable health care in this country, many of these are deep-seated and they will take some time to resolve. In the meantime, we can tackle quality of care.

How we can improve...

 But first, we have to decide that time belongs to all of us. No, we don't all get equal time, but we can decide that the time we do get is just and free. We can stop making your zip code the primary determinant of your lifespan.

Brittney Cooper: The...

 I think the saddest part of this is that studies of happiness and well-being, studies of health, too, show that one of the most important determinants is the quality of our social relationships, our social environment,

Richard Wilkinson: The...

 what we are talking about in health care. Voters do not think the social determinants of health is a feel-good phrase. They actually hate it. "What uneducated person came up with that language?" one of the voters said.

What Americans agree on...

 And he called this part of the course the X Factor, the potential of the human will. No prognosis can account for how powerful this could be as a determinant in the quality of someone's life.