“Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.” WayWellsPoliticalValuesBeliefEnjoyShapesPerceptionAdvantageAttachmentPartisansIncumbentsBeliefs And Values Author:Thomas E. Mann
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.” StoriesShowsSeemsBeliefEasyFictionStudyShapesIntellectualEvidenceArgumentMovedCriticalNonfictionSkepticalShields Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.” ReasonBeliefStrangeFlowerShapesGardenErrorsSensesObsessionAbsurdAdmirableFrenzyForeboding Author:Louis Aragon
“If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you... Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.” IfsTryingBelieveRealFeelingsActionBeliefResultsOur LivesImpossibleShapesStandardsCapacityRaisesSettingCommandCertaintyLastingWithin YouLackingCan NotChanging Your LifeBelief SystemsBelieve You CanSabotageHigh StandardsPossible And ImpossibleLimiting BeliefsLasting ChangeRaise Your Standards Author:Tony Robbins
“There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.” HomeBeliefShapesMountainStonesRootsMarkSticksDesertComing HomeRejoiceAncestorGenesCoastSticks And Stones Book:No Defense Source: No Defense
“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.” FirstsLittlesMomentsAbleCultureIndividualBeliefBornCommunityBirthHabitActivityShapesCreaturesBehaviorStandardsPatternsCustomsImpossibilityAccommodations Author:Ruth Benedict
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.” IfsMayWholePurposeCultureThreeAsksBeliefLinesMoralShapesElementsStringsSolitaryConfiguration Book:The Culture We Deserve Source: The Culture We Deserve
“Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.” DifferentBeliefDifferencesColorPersonalityShapesSizeCelebrateEveryone Is Different Author:Kelly Clarkson
“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.” FactsBeliefProcessLibertyEconomicShapesEconomicsHarm Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.” PeopleLifeInspirationalHas BeensDoneMotivationalPastBeliefDecisionVisionEnvironmentShapesLimitsConventionalConventional WisdomPast Decisions Author:Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
“At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships.” ThinkingWorldFeelsHas BeensIdeasStatesSpiritBeliefKeysShapesProgramMedicineGuidesDrivingCoreLifestylePerceiveBehaveUnconsciousInternalsMapsToxicProjectionLimiting BeliefsOptimum Author:Alberto Villoldo