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“Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.”

“You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.”

Inspirational Motivational Belief Goal Attitude Achieve Capable Encouragement Committed Destined Achieving Your Goals

Author:Hal Elrod

“Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.”

Thinking May Art Ideas Form Belief Attitude Materials Impact Endure Arise

Book:Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

Source: Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

“Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.”

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Author:Robert J. White

“God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.”

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Book:A Guide to Confident Living

Source: A Guide to Confident Living

“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.”

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Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.”

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Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.”

Past Belief Attitude Events

Book:The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

Source: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

“Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

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Author:Mary Kay Ash

“It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.”

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Book:Natural Science and Religion

Source: Natural Science and Religion

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.”

“One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.”

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Author:Catherine Ponder

“Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.”

World Reality Values Belief Attitude Focus Produce Our World Our Thoughts

Book:Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

“Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.”

World Believe Kind I Can Different States Feelings Belief Attitude Projects Vices Vice Versa Different Worlds

Book:Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

Source: Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.”

People World Way Belief Attitude Behavior Expectations Determine Relate Behave About Yourself

Book:Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

“The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.”

“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.”

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Author:Octavia Butler

“I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.”

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”

Mean Soul Desire Fall Belief Fear Levels Attitude Circumstances Height Aspiration Harbors A Man Thinketh

Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own”

“We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.”

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Author:Alan Cohen

“Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.”

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Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy