Convince Quotes

• 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

• It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • Hard
  • Killing

• 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

• 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

• You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Existence

• It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Trying
  • Convince
  • Expensive

• 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

• At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Reason
  • Enough
  • Lying

• Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Path
  • Leader

• Convince yourself that everything is alright. 'Cos it already is.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Convince
  • Alright
  • Already

• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Love
  • Peace
  • 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

• 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

• One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Pray
  • Tools
  • Convince

• I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Governments
  • Foreign
  • Officer

• I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

  

  Ben Bailey
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • Liar

• 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

• One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Magic
  • Convince

• Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Causes
  • Convince
  • Alright

• Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Energy
  • Achieve
  • Human being

• I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Stories
  • Wonderful
  • Turns

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