Convince Quotes - Page 16

• The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.

  Christopher Lee

  Song, Men, People

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• If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

  Harry S. Truman

  Logic, Wit, Ifs

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• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

  Michael Rooker

  Character, Casting, Problem

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

  Jared Harris

  People, Important, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

  Michiel Huisman

  Thinking, Chemistry, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Fall, Ignorance

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• If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

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• I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.

  John Cassavetes

  Thinking, Giving, Acting

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• To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Teaching, Practice, Enough

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• Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Soul, Wish

  "Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature". Book by D.R. Ellison, p.51, 2001.

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• I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man's understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Heart, Self

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• People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

  Judy Woodruff

  Creativity, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

  Walter Cronkite

  Carnage, Vietnamese, Coverage

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• What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ass, Notes, Convincing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.52, Vintage

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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• Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

  Michelle Shocked

  Heart, Way, Logic

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• I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, People, Tacky

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• The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

  Raul Esparza

  Children, Men, Doors

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• Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Healing, Evil, People

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• I spent 15 years of my career trying to convince people that Indian cinema is relevant. I am so proud of Indian cinema and I am so proud of my Indian roots. The IIFAs are doing a great job to this effect.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Jobs, Years, Careers

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• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

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• God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Given

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• I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Summer, Jobs, War

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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