Convince Quotes - Page 29

• I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Real, May

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• Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

  Garry Kasparov

  Winning, Needs, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Simple, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.67, Penguin

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• [Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to make and take to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust - as from this or that, or any other man or men - but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.

  John Bunyan

  Reality, Men, Convince Us

  John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.20

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• Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Rome, Reason Why, Sound

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• Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Jesus, Ministry

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• The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Hope, Heart

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• Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

  Van Jones

  Oil, People, Coal

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Convince Us, Evil

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• Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Religious, Buddhist

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• The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

  Socrates

  Caring, Rights, Care

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• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  Walden Bello

  Choices, Community, Promise

  Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Community, Church

  Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.185, SPCK

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.

  Julie Bindel

  Real, Play, Squares

  "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.

  Gregory Berns

  Ideas, People, Different

  "Neuroscientist Reveals How Nonconformists Achieve Success" by Kathi Baker, whsc.emory.edu. September 25, 2008.

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• He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

  Robert Kennedy

  Lying, Presidential, Telling The Truth

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• Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine... I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Views, Looks

  "On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle".

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• The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Mother, Daughter, Drinking

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• Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

  Paul Claudel

  Numbers, People

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• It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times.
       “Whether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.

  Rob Halford

  Creativity, Hard Times, Convince Us

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• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

  Isaac Newton

  Thumbs, Absence, Proof

  "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.

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• This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

  Isaac Newton

  Believe, Taken, Law

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• To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ends, Resources, Wells

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.31, Penguin

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• I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Convince Us, Want

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