Quotes About Convincing

The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small voices are heard only by those who are willing to listen.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.

The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

We can't just say, "This pen is great, and consumers should buy it!" We ought to wrap up this message and create not only a convincing, but an interesting story around it. Here I am, improvising on the spot: A lady dropped her pen in the street, it was raining heavily, and a gentleman picked it up and said, "May I have your number?"

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

He's as ambivalent about raising a family as I am, but he'll do it because I asked him to. And until now, I tried convincing myself that it was the praiseworthy decision. But is it the right choice for the babies? For Ram? For me? But I'm not supposed to think about what's best for me, am I?

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

He was a good talker—the sort of man who could sell lumber to a woodcutter.

Since more convincing proof is still demanded, I must make up my mind to humour people. If my consent give reason for offence, So much the worse for him who forced me to it;

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.

Przyszed? do male?kiego ko?cio?a spó?niony, poniewa? czeka? na koniec kolejki do zimnych pryszniców. Uda?o mu si? przekona? barczystego k?pielowego, ?e musi zosta? w bieli?nie. Potem d?ugo rozgrzewa? si? gor?c? herbat?. Co za okrucie?stwo - polewa? ludzi letni? zaledwie wod?. By? przez to w z?ym humorze.

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.