Being True Quotes - Page 11

• A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Temptation, Satan

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

  Lisa Randall

  Creating, May, Models

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

  Dan Barker

  Agency, Decision, Acting

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.137, Ulysses Press

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• When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  Felicity Jones

  Believe, Feels, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they do. Not at all. It's two things: It's a way to be true to what adolescence feels like, because, okay, your parents may be around, but you still don't want them to be around. What you go through, you go through alone, I think.

  Celine Sciamma

  Thinking, Parent, Care

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• However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

  Martin Freeman

  Trying, Directors, Throwing

  "Martin Freeman Talks FARGO, Finding the Character, Lester’s Breaking Point, SHERLOCK, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 27, 2014.

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• If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Mean, Talking

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• When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

  Emmy Rossum

  Looks, Too Good To Be True

  "'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum discusses Fiona's downward spiral". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 8, 2014.

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• It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude.

  Helmut Schmid

  Attitude, Mean, Fighting

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• This above all: be true, be true, be true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Healing

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• Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  People, Portraits, Details

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Simple, Hard Life

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Sound, Splits

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.

  Shakti Gawain

  Mistake, Order, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.114, New World Library

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• Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

  Richard Whately

  Sacrifice, Expediency

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• The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Integrity, Struggle, Independent

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• My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

  Juliette Binoche

  Ambition, Moments

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Religion

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Justice, Liberty, Belief

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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• Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

  Donna Shalala

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, Brezsny weaves a yarn crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.

  Antero Alli

  Crazy, Real, Yarn

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• If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

  Tomas Kalnoky

  Approval, Be True To Yourself, Seeking

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• The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,--these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Doubt, Guessing

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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