Convinced Quotes - Page 8

• I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

  James Beard

  Food, Simple, Cooking

  James Beard (2015). “The New James Beard”, p.533, Open Road Media

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• I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

  Alvin Adams

  Effectiveness, Humanitarian, Missions

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• I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

  Andrew Cohen

  Thinking, People, Quality

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• Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Running, Stress

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

  Voltaire

  Astrology, Etc, Astronomy

  "Sanskrit Reader 1: A Reader in Sanskrit Literature". Book by Heiko Kretschmer, 2015.

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• It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

  John Hawkes

  Airplane, Males, Female

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• I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

  Salman Khan

  Matter, Mindset, Teach

  "The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart" by Salman Khan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

  Hugh Grant

  Ambition, Grandmother, Wind

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• I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

  Jayson Blair

  Beautiful, Minorities, Kind

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• The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

  Richard Steele

  Men, Order, Honor

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• I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Father, Mean, Son

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• I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

  Arthur H. Vandenberg

  War, America, March

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• When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

  Christopher Morley

  Education, Latin, America

  "Point of View" l. 1 (1923)

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• I'm convinced that a few guys I've dated are gay, and they won't admit it. I think we've all done that.

  Anne Hathaway

  Gay, Thinking, Guy

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

  Marques Brownlee

  Race, Apples, Architecture

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Prayer, Attitude

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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• The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.

  Lucian

  Simple, Law, People

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• I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.

  Steve Jobs

  Brain, Places You Go, Television

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

  Danny Hillis

  Journey, Way, Becoming

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

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• I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

  David Hockney

  Art, Technology, Together

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

  Havelock Ellis

  Eye, Men, Law

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• There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Long, Trying, World

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• I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Government, Next Day, Trying

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• I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

  Seymour Papert

  Learners

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