Quotes About Convincing

Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. Thank you. Fire away.

but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

To a just Providence was necessary an instrument, at once penetrating, persevering, and convincing, to accomplish a great work.

La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel.

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

I'd rather concentrate on making my character more convincing than trying to prove my acting prowess.

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

he couldn't refrain from contributing his own mite of experience, thereby convincing himself more clearly of its existence as well as his own.

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the 'King James Bible.'

Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'

I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.