Quotes About Belief

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Often, though, people carry around the belief that the majority of their problems are circumstantial or situational—which is to say, external. And if the problems are caused by everyone and everything else, by stuff out there, why should they bother to change themselves? Even if they decide to do things differently, won't the rest of the world still be the same?

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another.

Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as "First you will do, then you will understand." Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

we imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-punishment. If we have a choice between believing one of two things, both of which we have evidence for—I'm unlovable, I'm lovable—often we choose the one that makes us feel bad.

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.

I love myself just the way I am. I can do anything I believe i can. My positive thoughts make me feel good. Just the way know I should.

I can't ask god why until I'm willing to ask why not.

When we worry we say to God, 'I can't trust You. You're not doing Your job, so I'm going to step in and take over.' We can't just call that arrogance and foolishness—it's sin.

gave Thomas no end of comfort to know that his father had been right: God would never leave them or fail to see to their needs.

Scientifically speaking," Quinn said, "the northern lights are electrical discharges resulting from the interaction between wind and the earth's magnetic field." "Oh." "But the Native Alaskans believe the lights were torches carried by old souls to guide the new souls into the next world.