We didn’t want to be tied to that damn teenybopper market. We tried to convince our record company that we could do more than silly AM hits, but they wouldn’t listen.
In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it’s just another game. You try to, anyway.
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they’re not usually inclined to do – replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might’ve gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.
To be an Arsenal fan is to convince yourself that you can no longer support a team that disappoints you, only to be drawn back in by the ever-flickering promise of something better.
You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
I’m, like, a person who likes love. And I can find love in any type of person. I’ve dated girls, and I’ve liked girls. But they’re usually straight girls, so it never works out. I mean, I’m not that gay, so I don’t have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?
For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather’s going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You’ll then be pleasantly surprised.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it’s all doom and gloom and nothing can be done.
My students often say, ‘My roommate read this story and really liked it,’ and it’s hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, ‘Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I’m your professor and I’m supposed to be teaching you something.’
As a kid I’d lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It’s my fatalistic streak, which I’ve inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.
No one will ever manage to convince me that the Fornero law is right and should not be changed.
My father was very methodical about life. He’d always ask me, ‘Now, what’s your system? What’s your schedule like?’ I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, ‘How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,’ I’d try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
We have to convince our youth that the nation does not need the white-collared class only. We have to find work for the rural young people in the village itself and stop the exodus to the cities.
Applause is interesting, but I’m a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn’t. ‘White Rabbit’ is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn’t say what I wanted.
I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they’re ready to do it.
To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there’s a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
However, people need to understand that it ain’t that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren’t can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
When I’m playing ‘Rock Band,’ I’m like, ‘Man, someday, later on in life when I’m a famous rock star…’ Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.
He tried to convince me. He spoke to me: ‘You have to play for Belgium.’ He came to talk to me, he’s always talking to me. I told him ‘it’s difficult, Lukaku, can’t do it, it’s not the same. Playing for Belgium is something else. Playing for Selecao… It’s Brazil, I feel at home.’
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.
If anything, I don’t have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, ‘That’s right.’ Before you convince them to see what you’re trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, ‘That’s right.’
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you’ll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.
Over the years, there’s been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it’s possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn’t dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I’m on top of things.
It’s taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I’ve finally broken that ground.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
I try hard to convince them it’s important – but there’s a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.
In my head, racism was an issue that needed to be fixed by the racists. Like you needed to convince that person one at a time rather than a systemic thing that needs a whole group effort.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point – even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I’m reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it’s worth the effort.
If you start studying history closer, you’ll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people – to convince the people that they’re under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
It’s important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.
As a viewer, I decide when I see the promo of a film whether I want to watch it or not. No amount of marketing can convince me otherwise.
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there’s nothing that we can’t do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There’s so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we’d be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.
