“The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news and wishful thinking to bad news; and that there are always vested interests to offer facile, optimistic alternatives to the bad news.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveI BelieveInterestTaughtOffersNewsInvestmentOptimisticAlternativesInvestorsGood NewsBad NewsWishful ThinkingVested Interests Author:Jeremy Grantham
“I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.” KnowsWantBelieveUseLife IsUsedPurposeFatherGivenI BelieveKnow HowOffersDon't BelievePurpose Of LifeWant UOur FatherFinding Happiness Book:Redeeming Love Source: Redeeming Love
“Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.” ShouldBelieveDoneLiteratureReligiousVisionModernMovementSourceOffersMessagesIslamInsightArguingSignificantDamageContributionThought ProvokingSoleProvokingComprehensiveQuranHadith Author:Jeffrey Lang
“The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.” ThinkingWorldWritingBelieveOffersVersions Author:Jami Attenberg
“I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.” BelieveTodayI BelieveChanceExistenceHappenedSorrowOffersPraiseTradeSlaveRejoiceShamefulAbolitionSlave TradeDeep Sorrow Author:Tony Blair
“I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.” WayBelieveI CanCertainI BelieveMy OwnOffersRitual Author:Emraan Hashmi