Believable Quotes

• The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Realism, Believability

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• An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

  David W Augsburger

  Motivational, Relationship, Communication

  "The New Freedom of Forgiveness". Book by David W Augsburger, March 13, 2000.

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• The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Essence, Drawing

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• I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

  John Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

  Nick Park

  World, Littles, Tiny

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• The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

  Leo Burnett

  Opinion, Advertising, Economy

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Roles, Actors

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• Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

  Denis Waitley

  Strength, Work Out, Goal

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• You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, People, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

  Robert Griffin III

  Hard Work, Great Things, Happens

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• Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Smart, Adventure, Past

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• What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

  Anne Rice

  Jesus, Character, Son

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• In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Drama, Adventure, Character

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• The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.

  Kevin Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Two

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• The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Rap, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Criss Jami

  Exclamation Points, Doubt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Beautiful, Gossip, Decision

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 28, 2016

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• Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

  John Lasseter

  Attention, Pay, Computer

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• The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Fiction, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

  Anna Friel

  Character, Important, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

  Tad Williams

  Art, Humorous, Book

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• People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.

  Lois Duncan

  Spring, Character, Blue

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