Convince Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Convince

• 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

• There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Believe
  • Act
  • Convince

• 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

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

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Trying
  • Convince
  • Expensive

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

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Convince
  • Alright
  • Already

• 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

• Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Convince

• First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

  

  Wasim Akram
  • Life
  • Prove
  • Convince

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Obvious
  • Convince
  • Emptiness

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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