Convincing Quotes
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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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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
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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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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
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So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.
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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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It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.
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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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Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
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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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People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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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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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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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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...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.
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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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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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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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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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The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
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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.
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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
