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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.
For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.
I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?
I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.
In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
I think that you have to believe. That's one of my biggest mantras, is believe. I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in myself.
Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.
You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.
Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.
I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.
There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.
Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.
I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
Stop blaming everybody and everything for what's going on. If you really believe that you deserve better, then you would have it.
We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.
I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.
I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.