Doubt Quotes - Page 37

• But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.

  Philip Gerard

  Passion, Writing, Order

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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• In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

  Lettie Cowman

  Patience, Waiting, Spirit

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• Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Views, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Jobs, Reality

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• When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Strong, Sex

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• Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.

  Anna C Salter

  Hurt, Recovery, Fate

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• There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Technology, Long Ago, Survival

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• There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Lasts, Intellectualism

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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• I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Play, People

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• One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job'...'I love you'...or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her?

  Jack Canfield

  Girl, Daughter, Jobs

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• Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, People, Giving

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 09, 2015.

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• I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
  van Vogt.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reading, Writing, Twelve

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.22, Melville House

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• There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Thinking, Play

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• You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Situation, Deals

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Our World

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• Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Long, Insane

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.244, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Book, Evil

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Life, Christian, Biblical

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• The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Change, Ideas, Advancement

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• Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

  Simon Bolivar

  Secure

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• When in doubt, initiate. Say yes—to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Love, Time, Joining In

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• I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

  Carrie Fisher

  God, Religious, Believe

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• Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

  James A. Haught

  Religious, Evil, Events

  James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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