Convinced Quotes - Page 9

• There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stupid, People, Complaining

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• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  Peter Garrett

  Country, Uranium Mining, Environment

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• We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

  Laura Miller

  Passion, Sadness, First Love

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• It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

  Upton Sinclair

  Real, Foolish, Evidence

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• Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.

  Al Ries

  Successful, People, Forever

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• Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

  Colin Angle

  Names, Ideas, Brain

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Next, Species

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• Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Boys, Directors

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Unhappy

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• I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

  Paul Brand

  Attitude, Suffering, Doe

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• Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wish, Would Be, Taxation

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• The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fashion, Kings, Men

  "Is Tech The New Black?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 08, 2011.

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

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• If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

  Neil T Anderson

  Want Something, Goal, Done

  Neil T. Anderson (2000). “Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ”, p.131, Gospel Light Publications

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• I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Home, Important

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Prepared, Dies

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.213, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

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• Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.

  Yaya Toure

  Winning, Cristiano Ronaldo, Champions League

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• The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Sad, God, Faith

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• I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Lying, Night

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• The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

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• Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

  Francis Cornford

  Long, Done, Ought

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• The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Issues

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