A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I've always found that the way into convincing somebody to make something is to write the script. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives. — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
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… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we… — Viktor Yanukovych Copy Share Image
We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when… — Nicola Peltz Copy Share Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it.… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you… — John Cole Copy Share Image
You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
![“I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments…” quote by Douglas Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1e/douglas-hofstadter-16025_ability_i-would-proclaim-that-the-vast-majority_3039297.jpg)
