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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Disappointment, Stress, Team

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• You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

  Seth Godin

  People, Needs

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• The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Analysis, Life Is

  Brian Greene (2005). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

  Jim Croce

  Real, Blow, Wish

  Song: Operator

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

  Bryan Clay

  Hurt, Giving, Trying

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• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Pavement, Politician, Fascists

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Men, Finals, Done

  Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

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• We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Heart, Answers, Praying

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• I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

  Joseph Muscat

  Country, Lying, Party

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• I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Fall, Curves

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• Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Successful, Humanity, World

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• The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common; we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do. I guess I'll put my sunglasses on and pretend, like everyone else, that I too belong here.

  Andrew McMahon

  People, Sunglasses, World

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• Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

  Hakim Bey

  Police, Video, Consciousness

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• Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Men, Evil, Affliction

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.58, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And when you convince one person to also become vegan, in that moment you double your lifetime impact as a vegan! That's power - and we should use it as effectively as possible. Check out the 'Be a better advocate' videos and essays at www.FarmSanctuary.org.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Animal, Impact, Years

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• Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

  Jonathan Alter

  Emotion, Logic

  Jonathan Alter (2010). “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

  Epictetus

  Life, Hate, Men

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.47, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

  Charles Osgood

  Life, Art, Trying

  Charles Osgood (1992). “The Osgood Files”, Fawcett

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• Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

  Niklaus Wirth

  Strong, Believe, Learning

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• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

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• Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Design, Tree

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• Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

  George Washington

  Time, Too Late, May

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.408

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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