Quotes About Belief

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

I believe that we will win!

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

I've always had the upmost confidence in my abilities as well as the other guys in The Shield. We all have kind of have the same mindset as far as success, personally and professionally.

God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.

When we were graduating from college, my dramatics professor Frank Thakurdas called me to his house and said, 'Satish, you're capable of doing a lot of things in life, but you should become a professional actor.' I told him that I am not a good-looking guy, how will I become an actor?

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

I still believe that my main purpose is to better inform the world. Sometimes that's done with infusions of my opinion, sometimes it's done with numbers, and sometimes it's done through writing a profile or, in this case, doing a sit down interview. But I feel that's my job.

Never argue with a profit.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.