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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? -- Jacques Lacan
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. -- Will Rogers
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. -- Jurgen Habermas
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. -- Max Planck
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. -- Jared Diamond
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like. -- Stephen Fry
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. -- Lord Chesterfield
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail. -- Geoffrey Canada
We convince by our presence. -- Walt Whitman
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. -- Robert Half
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. -- Scott Hamilton
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -- Aldous Huxley
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. -- Frederick Douglass
The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup -- Macklemore
Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent. -- Shahla Khan
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. -- Muhammad Ali
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk. -- Lucy Liu
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. -- John Henry Patterson
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. -- Clifford Geertz
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything. -- Brian Eno
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. -- William Blake
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style. -- Dean M. Schroeder
Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech. -- Ron Fournier
I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career. -- Anne Parillaud
Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently. -- Marlee Matlin
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. -- Stanislav Grof
Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way. -- Amanda Plummer
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist. -- Richard M. Weaver
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else. -- Priscilla Presley
It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do. -- Steve Jobs
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. -- Ray Kurzweil
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde
I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying! -- Portia de Rossi
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. -- Neil Gaiman
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. -- Warren Farrell
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. -- Chang-Rae Lee
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together. -- Jane Smiley
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger. -- Frank Murphy
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. -- Joichi Ito
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower. -- Pete Wentz
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. -- Amos Oz
A new 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. -- Max Planck
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. -- Vikram Seth
I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down. -- Christina Milian
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people. -- Leonard Slatkin
The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The power can come upon a person before baptism; it is the convincing witness that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. -- David A. Bednar
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?' -- Tom Wolfe
Conduct is more convincing than language. -- John Woolman
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I hope I'm always convincing when I act! -- Colin Baker
Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing. -- Suzanne Collins
I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner. -- John Larroquette
Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches. -- Helmut Schmidt
Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle. -- Ian Maclaren
Success is the most convincing talker in the world. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories. -- Mary Wigman
Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard. -- Maria V. Snyder
Logic is the art of convincing us some truth. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does. -- Neil Gaiman
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake. -- Philip Pullman
Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping. -- Mark Cuban
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing. -- Bill Vaughan
Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing -- Guy Pearce
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events. -- A. J. P. Taylor
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward -- Aesop
if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone -- Paulo Coelho
The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority. -- Gene Brown
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. -- Claude M. Bristol
In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. -- J.D. Greear
It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much. -- Frank Herbert
It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! -- Leonid Andreyev
What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? -- Laurence Olivier
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. -- Patrick Rothfuss
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. -- Raymond Williams
Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives. -- Patrick Dixon
I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. -- Simon Sinek
Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact. -- Santosh Kalwar
I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life. -- Andrew Carnegie
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice. -- Clive Owen
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.... -- Jacob M. Appel
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. -- Scott Westerfeld
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. -- Raymond Mortimer
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. -- Joan Collins
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. -- Thomas Jefferson
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. -- Bonnie Friedman
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. -- Grace Napolitano
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact. -- Germaine Greer
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience. -- Wes Fesler
Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in "?The Iron Lady.' -- Sasha Frere-Jones
What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer. -- Bruce Springsteen
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. -- E. W. Howe
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. -- Azar Nafisi
What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another. -- Trevor Noah
I believe in something transcendent, but I've yet to meet someone with a convincing label for it. -- Alex Mar
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. -- Bentley Little
Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. -- Michael Wilbon
I knew the beginning and the end "? I just had to dream up a convincing middle. -- Miranda July
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. -- Angela Thirkell
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him. -- David Wong
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend. -- Anne Bishop
There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying. -- Max Tegmark
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. -- Jon Niccum
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. -- John Ashbery
I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat. -- John Edgar Wideman
To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin -- Jeff Shanley
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. -- Neil Gaiman
It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game. -- Tim Page
I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity. -- Diego Simeone
I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing. -- Josh Hartnett
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing -- Susan Howatch
You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail. -- Dana Gould
Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101. -- Dolores Huerta
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future. -- Eban Goodstein
Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. -- Warren Farrell

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