Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Erickson

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.

Leonard Mlodinow

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

She's a big-time player. I just have to keep convincing her of that.

Ben Nelson

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.

There is considerable and quite convincing evidence that that could not have happened.

Kofi Annan

Leaders in the region remain engaged in the process of convincing President Saddam and the Iraqi leadership to disarm and cooperate with inspectors,

Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Max Planck

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Warren Farrell

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Nevertheless, the experimental proof is so much more convincing than such a general consideration that great weight attaches to it in any case.

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Colin Baker

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

I suspect they will not have a neutral bias; they will indicate risks are on the downside. I think we will, on the production side, see better numbers in the second half of this year, but I don't expect any convincing improvement in the labor market before early next year.

He exploded down the stretch for a very convincing win.

Francis Collins

Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

Tokenism creates short-term ticket sales but that kind of fan won't stick with the team. Unless the product is good -- and is viewed as good -- they won't come back for a second, third and fourth game. It's not just about having a good product, it's about convincing them they have a good product.

But over the years, I feel that what remains in the end is whether the pieces have some kind of urgent and convincing emotional message in sound.

Overall what was presented to us was not convincing and satisfying to us,

Stephen Fleming

Statistically it's convincing enough, but I think the tale of the Test shows that it was really about the morning sessions, about the new ball, about getting through that tricky period.

Nasdaq is really a mixed bag. The Fed debate is why the market can't put a convincing rally together.

I think that they're (school district) going to have a lot of trouble convincing the court that they've evaluated enough, because they just haven't.

It is important that the EU (plays) its part in convincing the U.S..

G. H. Hardy

Part of the therapy is convincing the patient they are not talking too loudly. That's how it feels at first.

Sam Riley

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

Three days later, the two objects were still there, and they were moving counterclockwise around Pluto, ... It made for a convincing case.

Scott Brooks

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

Orhan Pamuk

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

The problem is convincing students to give it a try. After that, the game, properly introduced, will sell itself.

Mal Peet

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

John Walsh

This woman was very convincing, just like many kidnappers are very convincing and very disarming, ... America's Most Wanted.

Napoleon Hill

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.