Quotes About Convincing People

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

Portia De Rossi

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

Hill Harper

#3. I'm so skilled at convincing people of lies, but I don't know how to convince you of the truth. I love you with all my heart and all of my soul. I will love you until I draw my last breath.

Lorraine Heath

#4. 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

#5. My association with you has been convincing people I'm insane for years now.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Raymond Mortimer

#8. I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

Brian Eno

#9. The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what is was. You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all.

Trevor Noah

#10. I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#11. The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Rob Zombie

#12. Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

Sean Parker

#13. I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Ada Yonath

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

Chris Guillebeau

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

Will Rogers

#16. Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.

Geoffrey Canada

#17. I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Victor Hugo

#18. It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

Megan Chance

#19. One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. When an entire group of people come together and try to make some kind of identity out of what they don't have, they usually end up convincing themselves they can do whatever they damn well please.

Christopher Rice

#21. To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#22. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Alison Miller

#23. I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

Simon Sinek

#24. True power wasn't convincing a cowardly lot to be afraid of something that people were already afraid of; it was giving them a complex that made them run screaming when a fluffy kitten came bounding into the room.

Seanan McGuire

#25. The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Leonard Mlodinow

#26. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

Velma Wallis

#27. I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

Cindy Sherman

#28. We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.

Orson Scott Card

#29. The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

James T. Shotwell

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

Robert Carlyle

#31. Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

Patrick Dixon

#32. 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

#33. By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Ray Kurzweil

#34. Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

Charles M. Schwab

#35. How do you steal a Republic? By convincing its people that they cannot govern themselves - that freedom is their enemy and that fear is their ally.

Chuck Wendig

#36. People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Elliott Smith

#37. I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

RuPaul

#38. There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Michael Carbonaro

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

Germaine Greer

#40. People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

Meg Rosoff

#41. A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#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. 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

#49. 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

#50. If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex

Glenn Hefley

#51. What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

Patrick Stewart

#52. A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. The legal bother, indeed, lasted for years. It was quite a long time before Mr. Baggins was in fact admitted to be alive again. The people who had got specially good bargains at the Sale took a deal of convincing; and

J.R.R. Tolkien

#54. The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.

Darren Shan

#55. Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

Orhan Pamuk

#56. I spent years convincing myself that regular people could fight, and I still think we can. But we need the same weapons our enemies have." Megan

Brandon Sanderson

#57. Many people - especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting - have ideas about who should or should not run for president.

Alex Pareene

#58. I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here ... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Bobby Womack

#59. But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

Thomas Perry

#60. Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

Neil Gaiman

#61. Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

Francis Collins

#62. A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#63. At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#64. Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere.

Nick Hornby

#65. Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Aaron Swartz