#convince

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

#convince #first #i #maybe #myself

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it. ↗

— Jay London

#cockroaches #convinced #diffused #i #military

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#animal #based #convince #countries #decision-making

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#changed #convinced #curve #eventually #had

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#ever #i #novels #only #the only thing

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#arc #away #convinced #every #every time

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #behalf #convinced #i #i am

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced