Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.' — Sasha Frere-Jones Copy Share Image
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity. — Diego Simeone Copy Share Image
“Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“the simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far more convincing than any complicated explanation could hope to be.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with… — Eric Dezenhall Copy Share Image
I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a… — Ray Wise Copy Share Image
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh.… — Mahela Jayawardene Copy Share Image
Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and… — Nicholas Boothman Copy Share Image
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I find, as a woman and as a producer, I spend a lot of time convincing people I actually did the work. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
“I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind… — Scott Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. — Llewellyn Powers Copy Share Image
