Quotes About Convincing

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

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

Cats were surly and not required to participate in anything, but managed to convince humans to provide everything they needed. It was the perfect existence for someone like me, who found everyone and everything as suspicious as cats did.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

When a user of the API complains and requests the element to be visible, you can still make it visible. However, don't do so sooner than requested and not without a convincing use case!

There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive.

If you think something's right and the numbers prove it's right, then go all-in. You can't muddy the waters. You can't just go halfway.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.

All that are upright are not equally fitted for the work, and many that are learned, judicious, and more able to teach the riper sort, are yet less able to condescend to the ignorant, and so convincingly and fervently to rouse up the secure, as some that are below them in other qualifications; and many that are able in both respects, have a barren people; and the ablest have found by experience that God hath sometimes blessed the labours of a stranger to that which their own hath not done.

A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we'll talk God into it. We think, "If I say it one more time, God will agree with me." That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it "right" or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong! 19 minutes ago

I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions.

and my men were in the film to grant it authenticity, yet somehow we were the least convincing thing in it. The whole experience was a pungent reminder—a reminder I didn't need—that in a contest against passion, truth always makes a poor showing.

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!

The power of a young woman is in her beauty and charm. The power of a woman in her later years is her social position and her ability to convince.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.