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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.
— Rick Danko
Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.
— Helmut Schmidt
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
— Washington Gladden
And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.
— Elizabeth Hay
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
— Frederick Douglass
I could never live like this," I whispered to Luka.
"No," he agreed. "I've seen you grovel. It's not very convincing. — Jessica Day George
"No," he agreed. "I've seen you grovel. It's not very convincing. — Jessica Day George
Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.
— Julian Barnes
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
— Jenny Eclair
I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job
— Charles Bukowski
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.
— Beck
Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery
— Douglas Preston
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
— Nicholas Boothman
The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing.
— Joss Sheldon
I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.
— Jack Frost
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.
— Hunter Murphy
My association with you has been convincing people I'm insane for years now.
— Brandon Sanderson
Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.
— Velma Wallis
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
— Clive Owen
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
— Susanna Clarke
Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
— Michael Wilbon
Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.
— John Green
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
— Noam Chomsky
She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live
— Jonathan Safran Foer
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
— Angela Thirkell
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
— Warren Farrell
I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing
including myself. — S. Kelley Harrell
including myself. — S. Kelley Harrell
I need to convince John to convince Jim to convince Jason that I don't need convincing.
— Jarod Kintz
One of Satan's most seductive traps is convincing us that we cannot do what we will not do.
— Julianna Slattery
Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit.
— Sunday Adelaja
Conduct is more convincing than language.
— John Woolman
I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
— Colin Baker
Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
— Jane Smiley
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
— Mary Astell
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
— Scott Westerfeld
Angel spent the next few days convincing herself she had not actually seen the neighbor go from bear to super-stud.
— Lovy Books
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
— Wes Fesler
The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
— Richard Swift
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
— Thomas Jefferson
There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
— Max Tegmark
Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.
— Chris Guillebeau
IT was pretty convincing.
— Deyth Banger
Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.
— Shahla Khan
To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail.
-Rayner Unwin — Jeff Shanley
-Rayner Unwin — Jeff Shanley
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
— Karen Thompson Walker
Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.
— Kathryn Schulz
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
— Rob Zombie
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
— Neil Gaiman
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
— Raymond Mortimer
A whisper is more interesting than shouts, the hidden more appealing than the advertized, & the insinuated more convincing than the proclaimed.
— A. George
The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.
— Aaron B. Powell
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
— Claude M. Bristol
Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
— Janice Macleod
I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.
— Lauraine Snelling
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
— John Hughes
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
— Germaine Greer
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory
— Harlan Ellison
Ariana, there's a small rodent on your face. Thought you should know."
"It's a mustache. Kyra assured me that it's extremely convincing. — Bridget Zinn
"It's a mustache. Kyra assured me that it's extremely convincing. — Bridget Zinn
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
— Niall Ferguson
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
— Anthony Marra
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
— Scott Hamilton
Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.
— Maria V. Snyder
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
What I think, Val, is that the biggest mistake a woman can make is convincing herself that she is the one who will be different.
— Julie James
But there is something about the process of convincing yourself that you don't care that just confirms even more that you do.
— Tarryn Fisher
If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex
— Glenn Hefley
I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.
— Diego Simeone
If you think it is hard to get humans to follow traffic laws, imagine convincing an asteroid to move along an ellipse.
— Stephen Hawking
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
— Mark Rothko
You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.
— Dana Gould
My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing."
"I am your servant. — Scott Westerfeld
"I am your servant. — Scott Westerfeld
Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.
— Jason Chaffetz
Waitressing required patience, a fixed and convincing smile, and the ability to continuously turn the other cheek while keeping diet sodas topped up.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
— Simona Panova
I suppose [ ... ] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
— Anne Bishop
The only convincing document he could write was a love letter.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?
Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech — Kamil Ali
Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech — Kamil Ali
If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
— Orrin Woodward