Convincing Quotes - Page 9

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  Ursula Burns

  People, Listening, Said

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• Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Reality, Men

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• It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Nice, Character, Player

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• If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

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• Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Morning, Kissing, Night

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• When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.

  Duncan Jones

  Moon, Talking, People

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• I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

  John Renbourn

  Teenager, Thinking, Play

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• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, World, Clue

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Water, Proof, Existence

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• No matter what, I will always choose practical FX over digital ones. Blood spray pumps and squibs go a long way in convincing the audience that the carnage on screen happens right there, in a manner that digital have not achieved.

  Timo Tjahjanto

  Blood, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Dollars, Proof

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• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

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• It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Children, Father, Characteristics

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2015

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• What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ass, Notes, Convince

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.52, Vintage

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• You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

  Dana Gould

  Guy, Ponytails, Lectures

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• The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

  David Alan Harvey

  Comforting, Important, Answers

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• When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.

  Nicola Peltz

  Mom, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

  Orrin Woodward

  Convincing Others, Bad Experiences, Ifs

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• I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

  John Larroquette

  Wigs

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• People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

  Germaine Greer

  Happiness, People, Facts

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• Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Pain, History

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

  Fay Weldon

  Space, Giving, Poetry

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.231, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Skills, Survival

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• The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

  Hannah Arendt

  Years, Way, Has Beens

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

  James Fallows

  Book, Ideas, Issues

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