Quotes About Conviction

It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute and unwavering conviction. No matter what I did last night, I cannot leave these animals. I am their shepherd, their protector.

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith.

The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

I don't think I like you." "A common reaction," he replied. "I'll win you over. Eventually." She

sometimes even when I know that you're lying, I still almost believe you.

They do exist. You just have to believe me.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.

She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

That's the struggle of humanity, to recruit others to your version of what's real.

He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.

Thoughts should be real. Words should have a definite meanings and a man should believe what he said.

Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.

the simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far more convincing than any complicated explanation could hope to be.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.

The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them. When

PERSUASION TIP 9 Display confidence (either real or faked) to improve your persuasiveness. You have to believe yourself, or at least appear as if you do, in order to get anyone else to believe.

Confirmation bias isn't an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system.