Convincing Quotes - Page 6

• With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

  Azar Nafisi

  Self Esteem, Lying, Matter

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

  Clive Owen

  Nice, Character, Play

  "Any actor who thinks he's a sex symbol has got serious problems". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

  Mark Cuban

  Helping, Selling

  "The 6 Things You Need to Know to Be Great in Business" by Mark Cuban, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2014.

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• A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Lying, Long, Black

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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• You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

  David Ayer

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Training, Actors, Audience

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

  Pete Wentz

  House, Childhood, Parent

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• There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.

  Jean Piaget

  Religious, Children, Unique

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Sexy, Lying

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• Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Reality, Matter, Masters

  "Classics Revisited". Chapter: "Tolstoy: War and Peace", p. 192, 1968.

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• Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

  Ian Maclaren

  Jesus, Miracle, Permanent

  Ian Maclaren (1896). “The Mind of the Master”, F.H. Revell Company

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• Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

  Max Planck

  Errors, Progress, Enough Time

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• The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Character, Play, Giving

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Dust, Details

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• The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  People, Actors, Mystery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Natural, Explanation

  "Stephen Hawking to Be Buried at Westminster Abbey, Dean of Church Hails Unity of Science, Religion" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 21, 2018.

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• There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Opportunity, Player, Order

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• I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Luck, Stubbornness

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• They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

  Dave Hunt

  Loyalty, Religious, Leader

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• my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

  Charlotte Charke

  Marriage, Uncles, Nurse

  Mary Robinson, Charlotte Charke (1830). “Memoirs”

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• Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

  Ben Nelson

  Convincing Evidence, Liberty, Done

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• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Tears, Weakness

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Degrees, Sacred

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• It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.

  Colin Firth

  Degrees, Attention, Able

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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