Convincing Quotes - Page 8

• As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Teaching, Reading, Challenges

  "Chang-rae Lee on War, Alienation, and the Power of Reading". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Visionaries, Slave, Employee

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House

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• As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

  Michael Behe

  Years, Ideas, Doubt

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• I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

  Jenny Eclair

  Actresses, Punk

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• Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

  Amanda Plummer

  Mean, Directors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Special, Literature

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.26, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, School, Kids

  Entertainment Weekly, April 18, 2003.

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• Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mother, Sex, Smart

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• In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

  J. D. Greear

  Christian, Age Love, Apologetic

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.231, B&H Publishing Group

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• There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.

  Juliet Marillier

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Mean, Doe

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

  Pete Wentz

  Rain, Fighting, People

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• I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Henry Kissinger, Attributes

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• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Powerful, Argument, Instruments

  Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev “Savva and the Life of Man: Two Plays by Leonid Andreyev”, Library of Alexandria

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• There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Real, Self

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Giving, Want, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other people in the world. This gets them focused on the wrong things, of course, but it has been a tried and true way of deflecting class struggle, something I don't think Marx didn't fully anticipated. The education system, and the whole culture really, has a lot to do with how these feelings are transmitted to each new generation. When parents say their kids were heroes when they died for nothing in Iraq, you can see the power of this.

  Michael Yates

  Hero, Struggle, Kids

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

  Aamir Khan

  Character, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans being pressured to be on Facebook? Again, it sounds benign until you realize that the military's concern isn't the Afghans, it's convincing the American people that we should be in Afghanistan.Soldiers can put up pictures and say "See how happy the Afghans are because of our presence here." It's a way to directly influence the American people using propaganda.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Soldier, Realizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Fall, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.

  Richard Courtney

  Convincing Evidence, Climate, Global Warming

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• I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Men, Long

  "The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin".

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• When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world that know of alien visits - including the British government.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Country, Government, Would Be

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