Convincing Quotes
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Ernst Gombrich
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
Raymond Williams -
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric Drooker -
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
David Alan Harvey -
...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.
Emile Gaboriau -
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
Scott Westerfeld -
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
Michael Behe
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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.
Rekha Sharma -
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.
Geoff Nicholson -
I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
Everett McGill -
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.
Elizabeth Hay -
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing
Susan Howatch -
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.
Michael Carbonaro
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Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
Michael Wilbon -
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
Germaine Greer -
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.
Edward Sorel -
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.
Edmundo Desnoes -
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.
Rick Danko -
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?
Jane Austen
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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.
Stephen Vincent Benet -
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.
Ray Wise -
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.
Simon Sinek -
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
Chang-Rae Lee