Pastoral Resources

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.