Convincing Quotes - Page 2

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.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

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

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

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

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

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

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.

If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

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

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

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.

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

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

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

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 hope I'm always convincing when I act!