A Quote by Amy Cuddy

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

Amy Cuddy

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Amy Cuddy
American - Psychologist

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Neal Shusterman

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

Karl Popper

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

Adam Ferrara

I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

James Carville

You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.

Eben Pagan

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

Luc Tuymans

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

Oscar Wilde

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Don Young

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

Tara Westover

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

David Wolfe

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

Alexis Ohanian

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.

Pierre Omidyar

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Jon Ronson

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

Jordan Peele

I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.