Convincing Quotes - page 2

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. (Will Rogers)
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda. View quote
Karl Popper
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. View quote
George Meredith
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. View quote
Randall Jarrell
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. View quote
Marlee Matlin
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. View quote
Nicholas Boothman
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any. (Philip K. Dick)
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together. View quote
Jane Smiley
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. View quote
Elihu Root
Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it. View quote
John Flanagan
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. View quote
Arthur Erickson
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. View quote
Christina Milian
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. View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
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. View quote
Frank Murphy
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. (Grace Napolitano)
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. View quote
Garry Disher
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. View quote
Leonard Slatkin
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me! View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
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. View quote
Rick Danko