Convince Quotes - Page 3

• If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Believe, Inspire

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• I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

  Garry Shandling

  Done, Puppets, Pitching

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 26, 2014

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• I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

  Kevin Spacey

  Dark, Thinking, Two

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  Irving Layton

  Clever, Arguing, Argument

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

  Freddie Mercury

  Appeals, Presentation

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• I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

  Frances McDormand

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Yield, Looks, Look Up

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• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

  Barbara Boxer

  Change, Country, White

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• Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others

  James de la Vega

  Believe, Trying, Believe In Yourself

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• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Humanity, Pressure, Should

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• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

  Harold Pinter

  Memories, Past, Literature

  "Thom Yorke composes music for Harold Pinter play on Broadway" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2015.

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• When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Trying, Thieves

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• One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

  Stefan Zweig

  Enthusiasm, Convinced

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1981). “Unrast der Liebe: ihr Leben und ihre Zeit im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels”

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• If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

  Josh McDowell

  Earth, Jerusalem, Faces

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• We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

  Bill W.

  Desire, Way, One Way

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

  Janice Dickinson

  Beautiful, Fighting, People

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• On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Light, People, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Aug 01, 2011

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Novel, Written

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• How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

  Richard Donner

  Men, Actors

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. March 1, 2001.

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• You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Creating, Acting

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

  Todd Gitlin

  Winning, People, Can Do

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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