Quotes About Beliefs

But I mind fanatics, the ones who try to impose their beliefs on you.

If you invite representative voices, shouldn't you listen to them, even when their claims are at odds with what you want to believe? West German beliefs about East Germany are so tenacious that the subjects of concern went unheard. In America, when white people tell black people how to feel about their own history, it's called whitesplaining. There isn't a word for it in German.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally comfortable. And for that I need to get into spaces that don't require me to make too many compromises with my beliefs as an an actor.

Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes.

It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

autosuggestion as a way of altering your habits and beliefs so that you can make yourself into the master salesperson you want to become.

your subconscious mind is like a broadcasting station that sends your thoughts and beliefs (or disbeliefs) to others. If

Affirmations can be an effective autosuggestion tool for changing habits and beliefs

Habits and Beliefs: Because the subconscious mind does not distinguish between what is real and what is vividly imagined, if you convincingly plant an idea in your subconscious, it will accept the idea as though it were a fact. If you have planted the new idea strongly enough, when your thoughts run in that direction your new idea will be the first thought that comes to mind. It will have become your new belief, and eventually it will be your habit.

Remember that people are motivated to buy or not to buy, through their feelings. Much of what they believe to be their own feelings consist of thought impulses they have unconsciously picked up from the messages sent out by the salesperson.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

The formation of our beliefs is fraught with superstitions—even today (I might say, especially today). Just as one day some primitive tribesman scratched his nose, saw rain falling, and developed an elaborate method of scratching his nose to bring on the much-needed rain, we link economic prosperity to some rate cut by the Federal Reserve Board, or the success of a company with the appointment of the new president "at the helm.

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

reality provides such forced revisions of beliefs at quite a high frequency. Many

people fit their beliefs to actions rather than fit their actions to their beliefs.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.