Convincing Quotes

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

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.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

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.

I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

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.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

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?

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

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.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

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

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

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.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.