Convincing Quotes - Page 7

• The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Character, Play, Giving

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Dust, Details

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• The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  People, Actors, Mystery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Natural, Explanation

  "Stephen Hawking to Be Buried at Westminster Abbey, Dean of Church Hails Unity of Science, Religion" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 21, 2018.

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• There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Opportunity, Player, Order

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• I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Luck, Stubbornness

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• What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Argument, Ability

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• They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

  Dave Hunt

  Loyalty, Religious, Leader

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• An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Atheist, Warrior, Perfect

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• From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Views

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

  David Ayer

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Powerful, Argument, Instruments

  Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev “Savva and the Life of Man: Two Plays by Leonid Andreyev”, Library of Alexandria

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• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Player

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• I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Training, Actors, Audience

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Henry Kissinger, Attributes

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• I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Ideas, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Real, Self

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you really look at the numbers at the entertainment industry, in comparison to the small number of Scientologists that are celebrities, the number wouldn't even register. I think Scientology has done an amazing job convincing people that there is a great number of celebrities in the "Church."

  Leah Remini

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

  Gore Vidal

  Giving, Favors, Argument

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• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Unity, Deities

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

  Ben Nelson

  Convincing Evidence, Liberty, Done

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• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Tears, Weakness

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Degrees, Sacred

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