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Quotes About Convince

Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
~ Thomas Harris
Ask yourself, "Why does this person need to convince me?" The answer turns out is not about him, it's about you. The reason someone promises something, the reason he needs to convince you is that he can see that you're not convinced, you have doubt, which is a messenger of intuition, likely because there is reason to doubt.
~ Gavin de Becker
promises offer no such collateral. They are the very hollowest instruments of speech, showing nothing more than the speaker's desire to convince you of something.
~ Gavin de Becker
common practice of using rumor and hearsay, which can lead to the unfortunate metric of mean time until declared innocent—how quickly can we convince everyone else that we didn't cause the outage.
~ Gene Kim
We did visit, eight months ago. Which was why Paul had had to work extra hard to convince Curran that there was absolutely no way to put a moat around our new residence. He still wanted it and swore he'd find a way somehow.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have to convince a paranoid man prone to spree-killing and snap judgements that someone isn't a threat." "He's right to be paranoid. This is a city of fools, incompetents, and madmen. I haven't felt this young in centuries.
~ Ilona Andrews
Kaldar stopped pacing. It was decided, then. He would marry Audrey. He just had to convince her to see things from his point of view.
~ Ilona Andrews
público. No trató de razonar con ellos. Puede ser que cuanto mayor sea el grupo de gente, más fácilmente se les convence por la emoción que por la razón. Como las emociones son pocas y las razones muchas, el comportamiento de una masa de gente es más fácil de predecir que el comportamiento de una sola persona.
~ Isaac Asimov
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
~ Alison Owen
It was after sometime that I convinced myself that TV shows run on talent, not people, and then used my talent to the fullest.
~ Kiku Sharda
I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.
~ Portia de Rossi
The idea that sport and politics do not mix is ridiculous. It's like a child repeating, I am not afraid, I am not afraid, I am not afraid. If you keep repeating something, it's not because you believe it but because you want to convince yourself it is true."
~ Susan Shalabi
I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial
~ Susie Bright
Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And in doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.
~ Suzanne Collins
After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.
~ Josh Radnor
Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.
~ Pauline Marois
You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.
~ Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
I had time to kill at the airport and it was a great opportunity for me to buy dark European chocolate, especially since I have managed to successfully convince myself that airport calories don't count. The
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
there was no way to convince the management otherwise.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He had even convinced a girl to splat with him once, just so he could say, "Girls fall for me—literally.
~ Neal Shusterman
We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains.
~ Charles Stross
I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
~ Raekwon