Convince Quotes

• ...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Important
  • Convince
  • Production

• I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Difficult
  • Grandmother
  • Convince

• The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Goal

• It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good. Yet they have no substantive or healthful elements to their faith. It's like the Laodiceans, who thought they had everything until Christ told them they were poor and wretched.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Trying
  • Christ
  • Healthy

• It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Interesting
  • Roles
  • Convince

• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Convince

• The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Blind
  • Train
  • Difficulty

• Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

  

  George Washington
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Folly

• Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Trying
  • Father
  • Believer

• I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • People
  • Convince
  • Transgender

• When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Problems
  • Create
  • Convince

• Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • Teachers
  • Becomes
  • Liberals

• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Prove
  • Convince
  • Journalist

• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Secret
  • Silent
  • Convince

• A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Player
  • Conflict
  • Intuition

• There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.

  

  Tituss Burgess
  • Film
  • Personality
  • Audience

• If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

  

  Anna Maxted
  • Happy
  • Inside
  • Convince

• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Voice
  • Jobs
  • Sound

• Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

  

  Mikel Arteta
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Convince

• The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.

  

  Steven Hall
  • Top
  • Convince
  • Desktop

• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Convince

• We haven’t heard from you yet, Frau Vetter,” said the commandant. “Oh yes … yes … I was supposed to call you, that number …” I fumbled in my bag. “I wonder if I still have it …” Did I really imagine that I could convince him I had misplaced his number the way I had “lost” my Nazi Red Cross pin? “The number is on your desk,” he said with a smile. “Ah. Yes. In my office.” “No. Not that desk. The antique desk with the brass fittings and feet like the claws of a lion, the desk you have in your apartment.” In my mind’s ear, I heard the fiend Goebbels laughing.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Wonder
  • Imagine
  • Laughing

• Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Art
  • Mystery

• There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Way
  • Convince

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