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.
It’s so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you’re worthy of their time and energy and ears.
I’ve learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.
In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn’t convince other people to really do it. And this year, I’m not running it.
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I’ve got to convince the others.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
I wrote ‘Truth Is’ with Julia Michaels during our first time working together. The song is about emotions we often think of but are afraid to voice – the feelings we try to convince ourselves we don’t actually feel.
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions – and both parties can do it – it’s part of the dumbing down of America that’s really highly problematic.
Humans are animals of habit – they convince themselves they can’t change. And that premise is wrong.
When I met my wife Vicky’s family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn’t anything like their idea of a musician.
The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.
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.
Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don’t feel this way. You can’t convince a fool against his will.
To convince people to back your idea, you’ve got to sell it to yourself and know when it’s the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It’s like surfing. You don’t create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.
There’ve been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don’t.
It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.
Before I saw ‘Tootsie’ with an audience, I thought, ‘No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he’s a woman.’
Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as ‘Why Men Don’t Iron’ and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.
I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it’s Top 40.
If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map – the distances look like nothing on a small map.
A lot of healing is in the mind. I’m not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I’m talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn’t even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.
I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son and daughter that they really would love this black and white movie called, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.
The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It’s like I’m herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I’m not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I’m going to do is convince you that it’s a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can’t see from the ground – you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
I think ‘Doctor Who’ is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.
We can do it all and have it all. That’s what I want young women to know. Make their own music. If nobody’s making music for them, make your own. Do what you are passionate about and don’t let anybody or anything stop you or convince you that you are not worthy.
If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
I find it amusing that every time I was asked when I will work with Zoya or Farhan, I was quoted as saying, ‘It will be easier to convince Steven Spielberg to cast me rather than my own children.’ That has come true.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right – even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
My friends had to convince me to get a Twitter and Instagram.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don’t want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Privacy is important to me. But it’s not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don’t want anyone to know my business. It’s an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.
I’m not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.
Adaptability is one of the biggest strengths that I have. To make decisions on the field, try and convince my captain to change fields, try and make him give that extra couple of overs.
