Convinced Quotes - Page 10

• The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Alarms, Speech

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.635, Vintage

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

  Richard Thaler

  Saving, Firsts, Employee

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Judging, Violence, Dignity

  "Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

  Jacques Ellul

  Self Confidence, Doe, Telling The Truth

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• I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wise, Sweat, Upset

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Running, Rights, Justice

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• Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Grief, People

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Winning, Player

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• Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.

  R. C. Sproul

  Data, Understanding, Mind

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• Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Angel, Rome

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• By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the word 'God' and that it was therefore as meaningless to assert a belief as to assert a disbelief in God. Though this, in a general way, has remained my position ever since, I have always avoided unnecessarily to offend other people holding religious belief by displaying my lack of such belief, or even stating my lack of belief, if I was not challenged.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Religious, People, Giving

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• When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Numbers, Giving, Chocolate

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
  The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Done, Rewards

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• If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Sacrifice, Men

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• I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teacher, People, Influential

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• Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

  Zig Ziglar

  Fun, Husband, Differences

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• I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.

  Ernest Gowers

  Heart, Years, People

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• Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, People, Goal

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• Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

  Camille Paglia

  Overcoming, Males, Female

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.

  Carl Icahn

  Broken, Doubt, Shadow

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• I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Too Much, Consciousness, Sickness

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• It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

  Andrew Dominik

  Lying, Thinking, Information

  "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.

  John August

  Song, Scratches, Add

  Source: collider.com

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