“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“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.” PeopleBookBeliefRealizingAttitudePaintingAbstractInterpretationSurprisingThrillingAbstract Painting Author:Marisha Pessl
“The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.” PeopleWorldAmericaBeliefProveJewStationsShadeOrganizeNationality Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.” PeopleMovingBeliefFirm Author:Brian Lamb
“At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.” PeopleMotherFatherBeliefCan DoAdviceGreekRecallsDistressNurtureBest AdviceKeep The Faith Author:George Papandreou
“I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.” PeopleThinkingWayBeliefShareAchieveAreasFundamentalsConvincedPermanentGreekEuroCompetitivenessConsolidation Author:Lucas Papademos
“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.” PeoplePhilosophyCertainBeliefParentMillionsMediaGrewGrew UpYeahThreatCultExposurePragmaticBelief SystemsScientology Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.” PeopleWorldStillsTodayChristianSpiritualFormHumanityBeliefBuddhismJewVariousConcentrationFedsLionsCampsPersecutionPersecutedConcentration Camp Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.” PeopleShouldWritingPersonsImportantIdeasBeliefTaughtFirmCharacteristicsSmarterImportant PersonFirm Beliefs Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.” PeopleWritingBeliefCryInspiredOverwhelmingConfessionShiver Book:Shiver Source: Shiver
“My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.” PeopleNeedsLife IsPurposeBeliefSocialEconomic Author:Maurice Strong
“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.” PeopleWantBigsBeliefNumbersTechnologyFansPlanetsFasterEmpoweringEntitySubservientReally Deep Author:Sebastian Thrun
“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.” PeopleBelieveCountryStatesSeemsBeliefInterestUnitedUnited StatesDangerousIncrediblesAbsurdOutsiders Author:Lawrence Wright
“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.” PeopleMenWayPersonsSometimesPoliticalNextBeliefFeetHe ManPerspectiveWork OutRageBuddhistObliviousPolitical Beliefs Author:Mike White
“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.” PeopleRememberUsedHateThreeBeliefPathSuccessfulDependsEnvyThree ThingsAmnesia Author:Jedediah Bila