Quotes About Beliefs

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person's musical taste is another person's hideous noise.

Interests change and diverge; values do not.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.

Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.

When supernatural beliefs gained those functions and became institutionalized, they were thereby transformed into what we term a religion.

10. Flexible personality 11. Individual core values 12. Freedom from personal constraints

You are your own marketing weapon—not only the things you say and do but also the things you are and believe. According to studies reported in Time magazine, the best five personality traits for you to possess are extroversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. It also helps immensely if you like and are fascinated by people.

La persuasión efectiva requiere interpretar las creencias y las expectativas, los valores y las emociones de tu audiencia. Puedes hacerlo cínicamente. Puedes usar la retórica para expresar tu punto de vista e incluso para cambiar el mundo. Pero con frecuencia el objetivo «es la gente, no las ideas», como dice David.

Comenzaba a comprender que una conducta determinada no era necesariamente errónea sólo porque algunos la consideraran así. Una persona podía resistirse a las creencias populares, defendiendo principios personales, sin perderlo todo, aunque pudieran surgir ciertas consecuencias desagradables. Más aún: se podía ganar algo importante, aunque sólo fuera dentro de uno mismo.

I would never pull down a church! I adore churches. It is what happens inside them that I detest.

Two fundamental factors are at the base of this transformation. The first is the destruction of those religious, political, and social beliefs in which all the elements of our civilisation are rooted. The second is the creation of entirely new conditions of existence and thought as the result of modern scientific and industrial discoveries.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.

I've lost so many deals from so many people because I will not stray from my beliefs.

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.