“In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.” YearsIdeasCareersSubjectsDegreesMathConvincedPhysicsFlyingTeenageTeenage Years Author:Bruce Dickinson
“By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.” MayLittlesSubjectsMoonTownsConvincedCircusReflecting Author:William Herschel
“I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.” PeopleI CanMatterHardStuffSubjectsConvincedBelieverCreepsUfoSubject Matter Author:Black Francis
“Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindProcessDealsPowerfulCreativityTechnologyFireSubjectsDiscoveryArgumentConvincedFlashFleetingOccasionalScrutinyScience And TechnologyConvertingAlluring Author:Genrich Altshuller
“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.” ShouldWellsWarOrderLeftSocialNumbersClearMiddleSubjectsPositionHabitConvincedReformTemperamentSocial ReformPacifistSmall NumbersMiddle Of The RoadUnequivocal Book:The Jane Addams Reader Source: The Jane Addams Reader
“Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.” HumansHas BeensEnoughViolenceSubjectsJudgingDignityConvincedHumiliationHuman DignityActs Of ViolencePersonal Dignity Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.” PeopleWayYearsHeartEndsFeelingsStudyFourSubjectsApproachBiggerRegardConvincedRationalConclusionCampsFour YearsPenaltiesSupporterSentimentalFavourDeath PenaltyAbolitionist Author:Ernest Gowers