Convinced Quotes - Page 6

• When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

  Christopher Morley

  Education, Latin, America

  "Point of View" l. 1 (1923)

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• If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  People, Like Me, Interaction

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm convinced that a few guys I've dated are gay, and they won't admit it. I think we've all done that.

  Anne Hathaway

  Gay, Thinking, Guy

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

  Marques Brownlee

  Race, Apples, Architecture

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

  Edward Norton

  Crazy, Stress, People

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.

  Geena Davis

  New York, Couple, Thinking

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

  Geena Davis

  Self, Trying, Want

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Dirty, Struggle

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

  Pope Francis

  Certain, Enthusiastic, Persons

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.75, BookBaby

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• The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Prayer, Attitude

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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• The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.

  Lucian

  Simple, Law, People

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• Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

  William S. Burroughs

  Justice, God Exists, Happened

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• I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.

  Steve Jobs

  Brain, Places You Go, Television

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

  Danny Hillis

  Journey, Way, Becoming

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

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• The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

  Larry McDonald

  Mean, World Government, Order

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• You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Different, Looks

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• I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

  David Hockney

  Art, Technology, Together

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

  Havelock Ellis

  Eye, Men, Law

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• You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grandchildren, Reflection, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.45, Xist Publishing

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• There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Long, Trying, World

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• I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Government, Next Day, Trying

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• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, Wonderland

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• I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

  Fred Brooks

  Integrity, Quality, Products

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• I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

  Seymour Papert

  Learners

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