You just want to prove people wrong and, over time, people start believing in you.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
Don’t buy this ‘believe in yourself’ rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There’s no point believing in yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing. Once you’ve got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It’s not quite the same thing.
The thing that struck me most after first viewing ‘The Sessions’ was the charm of Mark O’Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical – wet, hot and steamy.
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true – but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.
I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, ‘He knows he’s a good player,’ but without taking it to that level where it’s, ‘He’s an arrogant so-and-so.’
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic – the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters – just like during the Cold War.
‘Get Out’ was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in me and allowing me to help him tell a story so dear to him.
Success isn’t anything to do with being lucky. It’s knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
My dad’s about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that’s something I grew up in and feeds me every day.
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Just being in the industry that I’m in, you get people building up your ego – ‘Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.’ So I started believing the hype – ‘Yes, I am a god!’
You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.
I think believing in eternal love or growing old together, people might think is a bit old fashioned. I am bit old fashioned, and I truly believe that it can happen provided that you do find the correct person.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
I have to thank country radio for believing in me.
In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Keep going and keep believing and do what makes you feel good. And when you feel good and get to the point where no-one can take that from you, then that feeling will the best feeling.
We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the ‘World Spirit’ touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
It’s never late to go after your dreams. All it takes is believing and hard work.
Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you’re the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and… you deserve it.
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only – gold.
Any time a coach pushes you to do something that you think is a little crazy, I think that’s them believing in you that you can do it.
Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.
If aliens are really hanging out in our ‘hood, it’s hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they’re here?
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn’t.
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
I can’t help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it’s psychological truth.
When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It’s something I worry about a lot, but which I don’t have the answer to.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it’s possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
I have been receiving calls from all quarters since the release of ‘Madras.’ I need to thank audiences for believing in me and making this film successful.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
In acting, you have to fool yourself – you mess with yourself into believing things.
I don’t know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.
