Eddie Alvarez Quotes

I was hoping for a little more faith in me following my performances after the 2010 World Cup.

At times truth may not seem probable.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

You just want to prove people wrong and, over time, people start believing in you.

There's always people that say stuff about you. I just want to go out there and prove them wrong, and that's what motivates you.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

I don't believe in the landscape.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake. Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating-" "Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous." "Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

I would like to thank my coach for believing in me.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.