Convincing Others Quotes

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.

I was trying to sell a dream ... There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

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.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

It's supposed to be a good thing that he's got this dialogue started. To me, I think, I just took away something bad from it, because, apparently he had to do this not to convince them of anything. To educate them.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.