#convince

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#big #communication #convinced #experience #get

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ↗

— Johann Most

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

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When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#comes #convince #i #man #me

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. ↗

— John Malkovich

#been #convinced #go #i #life

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

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

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

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