Convince Quotes - Page 34

• Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

  Philip Roth

  Dark, Goes On, Sentences

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

  David G. McAfee

  Gone, Want, Facts

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Oct 15, 2012

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• Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love Is, Joy, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 27, 2014

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• If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Flags, Maps

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• As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals convince us that there are more important things in life than wonder and happiness. we call the acceptence of this change 'growing up' and it makes us feel big and powerful in a world that would be no less mysterious to us than it was before if all of the fantasizing that we once used to explore the "unknown" quality of our reality had not become devoted almost exclusively to the notion that we are in control.

  Philip K. Jason

  Happiness, Children, Growing Up

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• Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.

  T.L. Osborn

  Real, Men, Miracle

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• Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

  Laozi

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Wise, Important

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• If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Glasses, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Self, Afterlife

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Trying

  "Artist Chuck Close Talks About Corruption On The Art Market". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, War, Jam

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reality, Chocolate, Mind

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

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• Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.

  Arpad Elo

  Reading, Two, Chess

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• The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Spring, Self

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Ideas, People

  "6 Lessons In Creativity From James Cameron". Interview with Anne Cassidy, www.fastcompany.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Patriotic, People, May

  Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.27, John Hunt Publishing

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• How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.347, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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• Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

  Albert Ellis

  Worry, Anxiety, Situation

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• O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

  Ronald Knox

  Race, Doubt, Helping

  Attributed, in Langford Reed 'Complete Limerick Book' (1924)

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• If you Need to convince others that you’re happy, then you have Not found real Joy.
  If you Need to impress others with material objects, then you do Not understand true Wealth.
  If you Need to correct others, then you have Not looked in the mirror.
  If you Need to put others down, you have Not connected to your Higher Self.
  Know Yourself. Be Honest with Yourself. Don’t be a teacher or judge, be an... Example.

  Eric Allen

  Teacher, Real, Mirrors

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• Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince us that seemingly far away events are close by, relevant to any serious person's life.

  Robert Adams

  Fire, Convince Us, Serious Person

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