Convincing Quotes
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
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I believe there's other forms of intelligence in the universe. I've seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we're the most intelligent things in the universe... well, that's just depressing.
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I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
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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.
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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.
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...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.
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The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.
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There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.
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Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
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People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
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I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.
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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
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After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
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There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.
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The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
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Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a number on myself. "I am a powerful attorney, or a doctor." It's a little convincing job I do on myself first to know I can walk out on the set and know that I can be this guy.
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I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.
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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
