A Quote by Margaret Atwood

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Margaret Atwood

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Belief Negatives Say Suspend Though Willingness

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Margaret Atwood
Canadian - Novelist
Born: November 18, 1939

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

Merlin Olsen

Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.

David Folkenflik

I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.

Michael Loceff

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Don DeLillo

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Edward Gibbon

Trump's negatives are negatives that deal with his personality. People don't know yet what to make of him.

Paul Manafort

They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

Dave Hunt

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

Walton Goggins

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Diane Lane

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

Colin Powell

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Aristotle

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

Paul Manafort

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

Farah Diba

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