Convince Quotes - Page 38

• The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

  Rolf Potts

  Thinking, Needs, Cash

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Crazy, Long, Answers

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

  Jenny Mollen

  Dating, Guy, Trying

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.51, St. Martin's Press

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• From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.

  B. B. Warfield

  Jesus, Easter, Heart

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• The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are:
  You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.
  I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up.
  As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel.
  I know exactly how to get under your skin.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Attitude, Crazy, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.85, Penguin

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• Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Play, Offensive

  "Cruyff Says 4-5-1 Is a Sign of Bunker Mentality" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2005.

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• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Believe, Acting, Green

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.

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• You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

  Gillian Jacobs

  People, Sometimes, Can Do Something

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• There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

  Laurence Fox

  Jobs, Two, Acting

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• I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

  Barry W. Lynn

  Thinking, Church, Trying

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• I am not angry. I am just disappointed that, once again, a hotel has tried to convince me it will move heaven and earth to ensure I am comfortable when, in reality, it won't even pass me the coffee pot!

  Richard Quest

  Coffee, Moving, Reality

  Richard Quest's blog for CNN, August 29, 2007.

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• Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Children, Fall, Order

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.

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• I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Reason, Hundred, Seventeen

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• Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Order

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• I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, College, Political

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• Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

  Ron Kaufman

  Heart, Winning, Service Culture

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• No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

  Isaac Asimov

  World, Safe, Great Depression

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.66, Bantam

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• I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Home, Labor Day

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• No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

  George Osborne

  Political Will, Order, Law

  House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. November 26, 2009.

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• What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

  Romano Guardini

  Men, Historical, Messages

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• I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Sex, Fire, People

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• What's strange is, the people who want to be in the position are never asked to be in the position. Like, if you don't want to do something, then people really want you to do it. And the more you say, "No, really, I'm sorry, it's really not for me," the more they want to convince you that it is, in fact, for you, and that you'd be absolutely perfect.

  David Sedaris

  Sorry, People, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.

  Herve Falciani

  Important, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  A. B. Simpson

  Divine Wisdom, Mind, World

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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