That’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
In Canada, there’s a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There’s a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Believing in God was something I took as much for granted as the air I breathed. Religion wasn’t something that came out of a box on Sunday.
My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I’d fake I was sick, and she’d fake believing me.
Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I’ve wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.
I don’t have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.
‘Choli Ke Peeche’ and ‘Ek Doh Teen’ were my favourite numbers as a kid. I was a huge fan of Madhuri Dixit and would spend hours looking into the mirror and aping her expressions, believing that the mirror was the camera!
The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.
No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.
The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.
The message is that if you believe in what you create, it’s enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know that; otherwise, no one would read or enjoy it. So believe in yourself. Believing in yourself is important.
We can’t let ourselves stop believing in Second Chances for everyone. That’s why my role on the Board of Pardons is so important to me.
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.
Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you’re doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you’re playing, the stories you’re telling, and the people you’re working with.
In the era of President Trump, we’ve gone from believing things that are ‘true enough’ to believing things that aren’t true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.
Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she’d seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There’s a part of me that still believes it.
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the ’90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
If you start believing all that press about you, you’re in trouble. I don’t even read my reviews.
I think that my attitude about myself is something that I’ve been trying to work on – trying to be more positive and just believing in myself more.
A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we’ll each believe – or we are in danger of each believing – that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it’s full of pitfalls.
We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.
My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
No amount of manifest absurdity… could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
When a very tough, old school leader announced that I was his pick to be Chief of Station in a small but important frontier post, a few competitors complained to me directly ‘why would they send you?’ I owe that leader much for believing in me at a time when few women were given these opportunities.
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing – these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
I’m the worst employee in the world. I’ll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I’ll con everybody into believing I’m essential to the operation.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
You gotta know that you’re better than anybody, ’cause to me, if you don’t go in like that, you’re gonna lose! They’re gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk – whatever. You’ve got to go in believing, ‘I can do this better than anybody.’
Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don’t have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
I’m now the poster child for not believing everything I’m told.
Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It’s possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people’s thoughts that has ever been created. Religions and governments don’t have that much influence over people’s daily thoughts.
This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
We’ve got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that’s going to work for their families in an empowering way.
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn’t putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It’s believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
