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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Lucky, Olympus

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

  Louis Sachar

  Impossible, Improbable

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.313, A&C Black

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• Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

  Orson Scott Card

  Block, Writing, Interesting

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• ...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Righteousness

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• Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sadness, Mean, Evil

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Together, Stories, Way

  "The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2005.

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• The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, White, Space

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stories

  Giacomo Casanova (1966). “History of my life”

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• Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

  Brandon Mull

  Lying, Deceit, Sometimes

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

  Mick Jagger

  Keeping Secrets, Secret, Poetic

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• Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Warrior, Reality

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

  Bradley Whitford

  Real, Needs, Enough

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