Convince Quotes - Page 16

• Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

  RuPaul

  Fun, Ego, Important

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• It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

  Andy Andrews

  Book, People, Stories

  "The Noticer Returns Interview". Interview, www.andyandrews.com. October 3, 2013.

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• 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

  Believe, Trying, Fiber

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• If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Down And

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• 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

  Book, Years, Lunch

  Source: wwd.com

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• If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

  Deborah Meier

  People, Way, Fixing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Ocean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

  Kate Cary

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

  Mechai Viravaidya

  Laughter, Fun, Nice

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Government, Able

  "An unassuming billionaire with nerves of steel". Interview with Oliver Morgan, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2006.

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• Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).

  Scott Adams

  Country, Stupid, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.446, Penguin

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

  Peter Cook

  Team, School, Ignorance

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• There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

  Paul Goodman

  Food, People, Done

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• Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

  Robert Altman

  Thinking, People, Secret

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

  Abigail Adams

  Jesus, Father, Believe

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Talking, Dollars, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• 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

  Believe, Trying, I've Learned

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• Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.

  Jean Guitton

  Forever, Mind, Essentials

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• In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Strong, Military, Numbers

  "Villepin, Not Again! Scam Allegations Won't Disappear For Former French Presidential Hopeful" by Jacey Fortin, www.ibtimes.com. September 12, 2012.

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• A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

  Doug Benson

  Dog, Animal, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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