Quotes About Convince

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' - was actually Vince McMahon.

Even getting a restraining order—a fairly new legal tool—requires acquiring the credibility to convince the courts that some guy is a menace and then getting the cops to enforce it. Restraining orders often don't work anyway.

The profound obligation to convince those with the wherewithal to give more of themselves to institutions and causes larger than themselves falls to you and your professional and lay colleagues. That is not a burden. It is a pleasure. That is not a job. It is a calling.

Bigwig: I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah. Hazel: Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradiction, and to make the silence eloquent.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

Thus, tell someone that you possess and are willing to share with him an ancient strategy for attaining virtue, and you will likely be met with a yawn. Tell him that you possess and are willing to share an ancient strategy for attaining tranquility, though, and his ears are likely to perk up; in most cases, people don't need to be convinced of the value of tranquility.

If you want to convince someone, target their System 1 with narrative, not their System 2 with facts and data.