Best 50 quotes in «convincing quotes» category

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

Given these differences between the sexes, the sexual revolution was the biggest joke men ever played on women. By convincing them that the old rules didn’t apply and that two could play the predator game, men enticed women to do what men have always wanted women to do. But what a price was paid for the new “freedom.” And predictably, women were the ones who got stuck with the bill.

If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.

If you don't have the confidence to ask, you will never have the confidence to convince.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, "You have this power over me." He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power.

it is not necessary to convince anyone of anything..... and the words do not matter much. it is the knowledge and experience that is transcendent.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.

It’s important to know that you're behind, to be able to convince yourself to make sacrifices that get you ahead.

Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

What's the difference between hot and cold cereal? Why can't all cereals get along?

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. At the same time, it has been shown that certain forms persist with very little change, from the oldest to the newest fossiliferous formations; and thus show that progressive development is a contingent, and not a necessary result, of the nature of living matter.

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.

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

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

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

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

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.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

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

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.