What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>