“If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.” IfsBelieveI BelieveFiguresKeysBarriersParticipation Author:Richard Attias
“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveLongStillsMomentsWould BeDiesNextI BelieveBornLinesSinVisionFiguresBirthResponseRatePopulationExcessAccurateTennyson Author:Charles Babbage
“I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.” BelieveSpiritualI BelieveSportsFiguresProduceTvsPrayingWorshipGainsObsessive Author:Chuck Lorre
“I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.” KnowsLifeBelieveRealFactsProblemSchoolFormI BelieveGoalGrowthMistakeAchieveFiguresTaughtSmartPersonal GrowthInvestingCriticalMaking MistakesOur SocietyFedsEmbarrassingTestedLearning From MistakesEducation SystemElementary SchoolPhobia Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.” PeopleNeedsFeelsBelieveHumansPersonsFightingI BelieveNaturalFiguresMountainIncludingI Believe InDisappearOrganizedPietyScenerySlopesRespect PeopleNationalisticNatural Scenery Author:Leonard Bernstein