Quotes About Belief

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

I have doubted myself on several Daily Double answers.

I know if I'm doing the right things and if I do the right work, I'll win those long matches, and the success will come itself. This is not something I think of on a daily basis.

I'm the head of my home. And I have to get my daily bread by chasing Christ.

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.

I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Dallas.

When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.

I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my room from the dinner table for sneezing or coughing; I now know that I was allergic to our cat.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I met someone in the West Indies who was not able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was able to get up. I know the tabloids will get excited by this so I try to play it down.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.