Quotes About Convincing Someone

#1. Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.

Shahla Khan

#2. Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. 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

#4. Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.

Matthew Reilly

#5. So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.
But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. But it's still a big fight to get the work you're really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it's a fucking scam of a magic trick.

Brandon S. Graham

#7. At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door.

J. Edward Hackett

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

Mike Kaplan

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

Will Rogers

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

David Anders

#11. 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

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

Suzanne Collins

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

Portia De Rossi

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

Susan Howatch

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Jason Chaffetz

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Conduct is more convincing than language.

John Woolman

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

Gaston Bachelard

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Scott Westerfeld

#27. 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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Robert Ludlum

#30. But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

Ally Carter

#31. As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing ... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.

Jean-Claude Ellena

#32. I believe in something transcendent, but I've yet to meet someone with a convincing label for it.

Alex Mar

#33. It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.

Julia Glass

#34. Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

Tim Kreider

#35. We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

Sara Gran

#36. Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Arthur Phillips

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Scott Adams

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Helmut Schmidt

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

John Green

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Llewellyn Powers

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

Jon Niccum

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

Angela Thirkell

#53. 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

#54. 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

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

Kathryn Schulz

#56. 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

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

Tim Page

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#64. 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