Top 564 Convincing Quotes & Sayings

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

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

The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see it all the time. People get on medication, and they feel better, and they stop taking it. And some flirt with unreality on some levels. But it feels so convincing to them that it feels real.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.

I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

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

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

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

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

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

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

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

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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

Jon M. Chu is one of the most creative, convincing humans you'll ever meet.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

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

The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

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

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone