Convince Quotes
805 Convince quotes by 672 unique authors
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All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love…
— William P. Young
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The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as…
— George Balanchine
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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
— Jacques Barzun
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I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it…
— Jim Butcher
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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
— Oscar Wilde
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It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.
— Megan McCafferty
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Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which…
— Louis de Bernieres
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It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and…
— Haruki Murakami
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Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash…
— Joseph Delaney
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Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he…
— John Boyne
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of…
— Zadie Smith
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The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.
— Karen Marie Moning
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I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is…
— Henri Nouwen
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Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of…
— Dean Koontz
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Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
— Margaret Weis
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Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished…
— Bill Bryson
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
— Sarah Dessen
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I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they…
— Bruno Latour
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Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If…
— Jodi Picoult
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Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. .…
— Rachel Caine
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He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that…
— Holly Black
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Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and…
— Heather Brewer
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
— Gary Snyder
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I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication…
— Richard G. Scott
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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