Quotes About Convincing

#1. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. It occurred to her then that there was a reason age drained the pleasure out of life, slowly stripping away all the things you enjoyed or took for granted. It was so you wouldn't need convincing when the time came. You'd be ready, because everything good in life was gone.

Laura McHugh

#3. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.

Scott Adams

#4. The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Roger Ebert

#6. If you mean to unhinge me, young Jhonis, you will need to be more convincing. Allow me to demonstrate. You are a surface-crawling, poisonless bug who means to frighten a wolf. For I will trample you beneath my toe without ever knowing you existed.

Quoleena Sbrocca

#7. Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the American people that he's a racial unifier rather than a divider, without any evidence to prove it.

Ben Shapiro

#8. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Helmut Schmidt

#10. Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.

John Green

#11. The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

#12. 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

#13. A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

Llewellyn Powers

#14. Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Lawrence Halprin

#15. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

#16. The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

David Chipperfield

#17. A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.

Kathryn Schulz

#19. Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Ron Fournier

#20. It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Tim Page

#21. I meant you're very, very persuasive and I doubt I'd resist for long if you set your mind to convincing me."

"Say no sometime. Let me persuade you.

Anne Calhoun

#22. She always had that empty look ... It's a particular blankness, and I've mostly seen it on billboards for so-called gentlemen's clubs. The convincing ones have that same empty look. Like they know just how to void themselves and not get in the way of some "gentleman's" fantasy.

Rachel Kushner

#23. Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

Joyce Brothers

#24. The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

Hill Harper

#25. We were lovers,' he says dramatically. 'I was very convincing.' Livia giggles and reaches up to stroke his hair. Hank pretends not to notice Livia's hand as it crawls across his cheek, and it turns into a game. Her fingers pet his lips as he mumbles through them, 'What part do you want?

Rachel M. Wilson

#26. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

Cathleen Schine

#27. Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Edsger Dijkstra

#29. An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Jon Niccum

#30. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

David Anders

#31. 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

#32. I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

Stephen Fry

#33. Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Jason Chaffetz

#34. The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

Vladimir Lenin

#35. The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

Benjamin Graham

#36. Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.

Angeline M. Bishop

#37. Why do you think Jesus used wine to symbolize his blood? ...
I think the Lord used wine for dozens of reasons, but one of the most convincing for me is the fact that crafting a glass of fine wine is nothing less than a very intentional, almost sacrificial, act of love.

Nicole Baart

#38. The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

Susan Howatch

#39. I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

Portia De Rossi

#40. Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

Suzanne Collins

#41. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.

Jonathan Darman

#42. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Will Rogers

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

Gaston Bachelard

#44. A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

John Updike

#45. When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Joseph Campbell

#46. My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing."
"I am your servant.

Scott Westerfeld

#47. I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Rupert Everett

#48. Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.

Julian Barnes

#49. Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

John Flanagan

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

David Alan Harvey

#51. When you're signed to a big label you're always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.

Moby

#52. 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

#53. You breathe too fast to be convincing,' he goaded.
'You don't breathe enough to judge me.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#54. Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

Lauraine Snelling

#55. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

Rick Santorum

#56. What I think, Val, is that the biggest mistake a woman can make is convincing herself that she is the one who will be different.

Julie James

#57. I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.

Benjamin Franklin

#58. Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Brian Cox

#59. And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Amos Oz

#60. Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

Jim Ramstad

#61. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil.

Edmund Carver

#62. In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

Leonard Slatkin

#63. Free huffed. "It's hardly my fault you made a hero of my father."
"No," he said softly. "But every bloody time I convince myself I ought to walk away from you ... "
"Well," she said simply, "you wouldn't have that problem if you stopped convincing yourself of stupid things.

Courtney Milan

#64. SELLING HAS BEEN DEFINED AS: THE ACT OF PERSUADING OR CONVINCING SOMEONE TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR IDEA.

Mike Kaplan

#65. It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Scott Westerfeld

#66. Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

Ian Maclaren

#67. To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

Anthony Marra

#68. Where TV lets you down, I'm discovering, is by not convincing you how things really work in the world. Like, do buses stop anywhere along the road, to pick up any kind of asshole, or do you have to be at a regular bus stop?

D.B.C. Pierre

#69. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...

Jacob M. Appel

#70. The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

Gyorgy Kepes

#71. Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

Kofi Annan

#72. At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

Geoffrey Canada

#73. By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

Walter Terry

#74. Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

Michael Wilbon

#75. 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

#76. An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Maxim Gorky

#77. ...personal experiences are probably the most convincing reason to believe for any individual who has had them.

Lewis N. Roe

#78. Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.

Lisa Kleypas

#79. Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

Robert Ludlum

#80. I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Colin Baker

#81. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

David Levithan

#82. A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Jane Smiley

#83. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#84. Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Douglas William Jerrold

#85. Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.

Frank Wilczek

#86. That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#87. 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

#88. The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

#89. He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

Mark Rydell

#90. Convincing biologic evidence exists for symptomatic chronic B. burgdorferi infection in patients after recommended treatment regimens for Lyme disease.

David Quammen

#91. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

Dan Groat

#92. What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#93. Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

Chris Guillebeau

#94. Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Jurgen Habermas

#95. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Neil Gaiman

#96. The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Mark Twain

#97. Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

Arlene Croce

#98. But Jesus also wanted to demonstrate that a convincing argument rarely results in a changed heart. Hearts aren't transformed through well-rehearsed speeches; they're transformed when they see the truth and power of God demonstrated through a humble man or woman of God.

Tri Robinson

#99. Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

Amanda Plummer

#100. With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Montesquieu