#convince

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#consequence #convinced #excellencies #few #few men

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#cure #difficult #enemy #environmental #environmental problems

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? ↗

— Richard Donner

#convince #could #fly #going #how

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#archetypes #being #convinced #film #people

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#convince #old #plain #political #time

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#anxiety #anyone #convinced #fear #i

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#chance #changed #character #convinced #exceptional

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convinced #even #japanese #japanese people #necessary

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convince #failure #finality #hopeless #me