Who Are You Trying To Convince Quotes

#1. Let me make it clear. There will be no repeat of that night. Absolutely not! Not ever, do you understand?"
"Who are you trying to convince, Tessnia? Me or you?

Jalpa Williby

#2. What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.

Martina Navratilova

#3. Ask the person trying to convince you of something to explain how it would work. Odds are they have not done the work required to hold an opinion.

Anonymous

#4. trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right

-the idea shrinking is hereditary

Rupi Kaur

#5. I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

Bill Ayers

#6. In suffering, you've found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life's wonders. You're still trying to believe it every day. One morning you convince yourself it will all be worth it, the next you're down and believe it all to be worthless.

Connor Franta

#7. The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

Mark Powell

#9. One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Moby

#10. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

Casey Stengel

#11. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#13. You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.

Steven Petrow

#14. The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "Have you ever done this before?"
"Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Brent Weeks

#15. I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

Gerard Way

#16. She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. I remember desperately trying to convince my wife that what I was believing was real - that I was being followed, that I was involved in some type of mind-control experiment. I couldn't understand why she couldn't believe me.

Scott Stapp

#18. I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

Moby

#19. These days people spend more time trying to convince the world that their life is perfect than they spend on actually improving their lives.

Saccheen Laing

#20. You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?

Randy Gage

#21. I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you're modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you're a jerk.

Jesse Andrews

#22. Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!

Shannon L. Alder

#23. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

#24. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.

Art Hochberg

#25. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

Sayed Kashua

#26. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.

Ellen O'Connell

#27. Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.

Bianca Frazier

#28. There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

Bill Gates

#29. When a liar uses words to convince someone to believe them it's like trying to swim with weight wrapped around your legs. It won't work. Eventually you'll tire out and sink.

Rachel Van Dyken

#30. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.

Jeaniene Frost

#31. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Andy Garcia

#32. The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Ambrose Bierce

#33. Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action.

Leonard Koren

#34. Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

James De La Vega

#35. But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Frank Miller

#36. It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

A.J. Waines

#37. Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus

#38. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Gary Snyder

#39. Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

Bryan Clay

#40. I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

Oprah Winfrey

#41. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I'll fight you now." Cortez

James S.A. Corey

#42. I've ... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.

Paul Baran