Convince Quotes - Page 17

• Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

  Michelle Shocked

  Media, Culture, Mainstream

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• If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Making Money, Method, Nevertheless

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• One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

  Laozi

  Believe, Needs

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• It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Investment, Minutes

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• A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

  Pat Boone

  Girl, Men, Female

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• That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Encounters, Fiction, Harm

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• Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

  Deion Sanders

  Football, Home, Heart

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• If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Ifs, Convinced

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.

  David Limbaugh

  Recovery, College, Convince Us

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• It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Acceptance, Errors, Done

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• A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Mentor, Majority

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, March 05, 2007.

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• You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

  Glenn Beck

  Father, Founding

  "Glenn Beck Advocates Secession" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2009.

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• If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Ifs, Convinced

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• The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

  Richard Hell

  Girl, Rocks, Purpose

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• For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.

  James Brady

  Believe, Errors, Echoes

  "Blog Rage" by James Brady, www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2006.

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• A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

  Dennis Sharp

  Lying, Believe, True Power

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• I was in bar about 15 years ago, a relationship had ended badly, I was very drunk and I thought I would convince myself to try and be gay. Like, at one point I didn't like coffee, then I learned to like it.

  Moby

  Coffee, Gay, Years

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

  Moby

  Regret, Gay, Trying

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Fighting, Political Language

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Want, Arguing, Interest

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Tired, Easy, Performing

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.

  Kola Boof

  Passion, Night, Emotional

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• The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

  Carter Jenkins

  Thinking, Accents, New Zealand

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than a grocery list might convince themself that they could also write a book. That being said, it's always a lot of work, as you know. And then there's this: you have no idea how many failed stories and novels I've attempted. I have files full of stories that didn't work for whatever reason.

  Mary J. Miller

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

  Mary J. Miller

  Thinking, Trying, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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