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“Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.”

World States Seems Next Individual Vision Welcome Ease Encounters Transition Convincing Deathbed Euphoria Approaching Death

Author:Stanislav Grof

“I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.”

Play Character Nice Convincing Straightforward

Author:Clive Owen

“Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.”

Enough Progress Generations Theory Errors Arise Allowing Convincing Enough Time New Generation

Author:Max Planck

“my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.”

Age Brain Marriage Married Proof Occasions Touched Misfortunes Nurse Uncles Convincing Maids

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.”

“The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.”

States Goal Steps Objects Argument Mathematics Property Definitions Various Proof Statements Mathematical Reasoning Introducing Justified Convincing Presenting Theorems Small Steps

Author:IU?. I. Manin

“The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.”

Looks Littles Reality Film Bits Audience Little Bit Harder Convincing Caricatures

Author:John Lasseter

“The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.”

World Real Sometimes Moments Obligation Real World Convincing

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.”

Way Crime Reader Tricks Setting Settings Convincing Evoke Thrillers Good Writers Highlights

Author:Garry Disher

“Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.”

Half Opinion Figures Judging Convincing Skating Figure Skating

Author:Scott Hamilton

“Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.”

People Giving Reason Lays Convincing

Book:Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

“I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.”

Half Support Gun Interviews Penalties Convincing Death Penalty

Author:Ann Coulter

“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”

Men Two War Saws Military Becoming Conflict Argument Warm Instance Shooting Rude Disputes Convincing

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”

Men Reason Feelings Wish Levels Human Nature Greatness Stronger Beast Convince Contempt Convincing Baseness Greatness Of Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.”

Men Grows Illusion Notion Convincing

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.”

Writing Art Sometimes Matter Insight Code Convincing Erotic

Author:Karl Kraus

“The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.”

Kids Convincing Raising Kids Seniority

Author:Gene Brown

“It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.”

Ends Character Helping Today Young Games Nice Player Keys Victory Series Finished Cricket Convincing Bangladesh Sri Lanka

Author:Mahela Jayawardene

“The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.”

“I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.”

Character Sides Convincing

Author:Josh Hartnett

“No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.”

Thinking Men Dream Night He Man Bed Prove Awakening Convincing

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.”

“If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.”

Ifs Needs Seems Action Certain Numbers Plot Vitality Convincing

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.”

Ideas Real Hard Play Natural Acting Crazy Harder Hardest Subtle Grants Entertaining Hardest Thing Convincing Jimmy Jimmy Stewart

Author:Jon Lovitz

“The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.”

Helping Would Be America Remember Plans Failing Cost Program Grateful Debt Germany Be Grateful Convincing Comprehensive Reduction Marshall Plan

Author:George Soros

“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.”

Sometimes Certain Challenges Answers Situation Ego Vacation Clients Convincing

Author:Eric Dezenhall

“My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.”

Way Feels Stories Goal Unlikely Convincing

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.”

People Thinking World Way Different Care Seeing Inspire Don't Care Idiot I Don't Care Different Ways Naive Convincing Open Minded Seeing The World

Author:Simon Sinek

“I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.”

People Games Chance Tricks Convincing Take A Chance

Author:RuPaul

“You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.”

Littles Whole Humor Funny Order Three Bits Little Bit Philosophical Remains Legs Eight Pity Bitter Confused Hunting Spiders Prey Convincing Squirrels Venom Ukrainian Samaritans

Author:Bill Bailey

“When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.”

Writing Looks Made Seems Felt My Own Periods Accounts Historical Obvious Made It Characteristics Convincing

Author:Brian Eno

“As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.”

Persons Sometimes Artist Pleasure Following Receiving Convincing Fragrance Trajectory

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.”

Fun Subjects Reader Ordinary Unusual Convincing

Author:Susan Orlean

“Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.”

Giving Advice Depends Essentials Authority Capacity Convincing Consultants

Author:Andrew Thomas

“Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.”

Kind Littles Different Real Dream Wonder Childhood Creatures Nightmare Multitudes Convincing Unnatural Day Life Procession

Book:JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…

Source: JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…

“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.”

Should Years Heart Long Able Lasts Values Business Company Progress Wonderful Built Argument Core Preserves Thrive Convincing Jerry Mining Flux Unchanging Retaining

Author:Kevin Kelly

“We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.”

Thinking World Age Effort Struggle Intellectual Tasks Curiosity Worthy Myth Tales Sufficient Fairy Iron Fairy Tale Convincing Infatuated

Author:Sam Harris

“Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.”

Ifs Looks Sun Rocks Needed Balls Down And Throat Convincing Solar System Grabbing

Author:Brian Cox

“I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.”

Ifs Humans Wanted Conditions Cat If I Could Human Condition Convincing

Author:Jim Davis

“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.”

Should Done Liberty Clear Evidence Bases Constitution Sacred Endeavor Delicate Amendments Documents Convincing Freedom And Liberty Love Freedom Amending The Constitution Convincing Evidence

Author:Ben Nelson

“Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.”

Eye Tears Weapons Weakness Dear Convincing Shields Spears

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.”

States Interest Religious Danger Degrees Sacred Proof Graves Convincing Religious Freedom

Author:Frank Murphy

“It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.”

Wells Facts Able Attention Honest Materials Mets Degrees Projects Handle Being Honest Hunts Convincing Helen

Author:Colin Firth

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.”

Knows Men Form Artist Know How Impression Objectives Subjective Convincing

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'”

Despite Ministers Iron Prime Prime Minister Convincing Iron Lady

Author:Sasha Frere-Jones

“Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read.”

Pleasure Development Fairs Criticism Profound Various Insightful Hypothesis Convincing Informative Gaia Toby

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.”

Ifs World Years Humans Would Be Human Beings Love Is Vision Practice This World Convincing

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!”

People Men Needs Trying Supreme Convince Clown Convincing Supreme Power

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”

“I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.”

Giving Form Pleasure Heard Involved Argument Contrary Favors Convincing

Author:Gore Vidal