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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.Henry David Thoreau
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As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.Tom Hanks
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Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.Patrick Pichette
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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.Ravichandran Ashwin
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.Garry Shandling
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Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.Lawrence M. Krauss
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I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?Kevin Spacey
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.James Carville
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.Irving Layton
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We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.Jenova Chen
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The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.David Harsanyi
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.Marilyn Monroe
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No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one.Ally McCoist
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I caught on to how to talk to sellers and convince them to sell to me on sweat equity. Little or no money down. The most extreme example was, I bought a couple of buildings for $140,000, and my down payment was 10 bucks.Robert Bigelow
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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.Bishop Briggs
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I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.Amitava Kumar
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The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.Justine Skye
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'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'George Lois
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I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.Shigeru Miyamoto
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.Muhammad Ali
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I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.George R. R. Martin
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.John Henrik Clarke
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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.John Henry Patterson
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My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.Emma Gonzalez
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Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds. It's not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to actually follow it.Leana S. Wen
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.Palmer Luckey
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.Brigitte Bardot
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First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.Mads Mikkelsen
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.Carlos Ghosn
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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.Ronda Rousey
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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.Jake LaMotta
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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.Jeff Bezos
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People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.Pep Guardiola
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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.Michael Moore
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That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n' roll.Jay-Z
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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.Sigmund Freud
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.George Washington
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Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.N. R. Narayana Murthy
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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.Jeannette Rankin
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If a player does not want to play for a club like Manchester United, medium or long-term, I don't think it makes sense to convince him to change his mind. This is such a massive club with such fantastic support from the supporters, I don't think anyone in the club should try to convince a player to stay.Ralf Rangnick
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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.Orison Swett Marden
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After three months of singing, Hef heard me practicing once. He tried to convince me to quit singing lessons because there was no chance of being good at it. Of course, I cried a lot when he said that, but it was my money that I was investing in lessons so I continued partly out of spite and partly because I really wanted to do it.Barbi Benton
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'Playboy Magazine' has been a devil's advocate for me. Because of the image and type-casting, it's harder to convince people that I can sing. Yet, I probably wouldn't have had the chance, had it not been for Playboy.Barbi Benton
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For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.Mary L. Trump
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Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.Reshma Saujani
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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.Bill Kristol
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