A Quote by Chris Bell
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
I think a lot of people, not all of them, but a bunch of TV people put Donald Trump on television thinking he's making a fool of himself and thinking that he's making a fool of the GOP. I think early on that's what the Republican establishment thought. "Oh, let's hear more of this guy. He's just helping us left and right. He's digging his own grave here."
What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.
Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that wasn't the territory of poetry. I think that's pretty smart. I think that it doesn't need to be altogether true, but that was my starting place.
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
People think I'm cool - it's a virtue of my job! In real life I'm absolutely not cool, but I think if you have the courage of your convictions, and you're confident in yourself, people will maybe think that you are even if you're really a massive dork. Everyone has a different job where, to someone else, your job is really fancy!
It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.
People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no
agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.
I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.
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