Quotes About Belief

In my practice, when I see clients for the first time, I see them as the end product—the way they will be in the future. They are all beautiful. What stands between who they are and who they want to be is their willingness to change strong habits, belief systems, and the gracefulness to embrace a new way of living. I aid them in their pursuit of change and liberation from unwanted habits.

I believe I'm below average. It's a deliberate, cultivated belief to compensate for our tendency to think we're above average.

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD

PARTING ADVICE? "What I would really like is for those of you who have been told that you're learning disabled, or you're not good at math, or that you're terrible at music, or something like that, to seek out unconventional ways of proving that wrong. Believe not only in yourselves, but that there are [ways, tools, methods] powerful enough to make things that look very difficult much easier than you ever imagined.

Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

If I believed this, how would it affect my decisions in the next week? Over the next 6 to 12 months?

Start with Why by Simon Sinek.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

1—It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

My confidence came from my vision. . . . I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.

Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

Like Chuck Close says, 'Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will—through work—bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great 'art idea.

Don't let someone knock you off course before you reach your destination. Trust the work. Always trust the work.

The Magic of Thinking Big (192 pages) BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

Losing faith in my bosses and elders made me independent and an adult.

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.

Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual.

don't get daunted out of shooting for something you want, especially by potentially unfounded assumptions.

It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even when everything is going terribly, and I have no reason to be confident, I just decide to be.

Qué coste te ha supuesto cada creencia o convencimiento en el pasado y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?

No one cares if you are a people person. Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.