Sentences with phrase «thought were convincing»

Unfortunately, news articles don't provide much detail, and I didn't find any articles that I thought were convincing.

They will think they are convincing you that you are on the same side of the fence with them.

I thought they were convinced to go and kill others by the commands of their priests and kings...

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

Who exactly do these atheists think they're convincing?

I think I'm convinced.

I think you're convincing me I'd need to go the easy way of hiring someone to help.

I just finished John Bogle's Common sense investing and I think I am convinced that investing in Index Fund is a great idea.

We have a door going into our backyard and I keep telling my husband we need to saw it in half — I don't think he's convinced, though.

Not exact matches

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

It's not easy to convince people to buy your products as a thought leader.

These are the ones that people start off thinking perhaps they could do themselves, and it will be your job to convince them otherwise.

Not everyone is convinced that people should order their own medical tests, and some think that doing so could create chaos.

I like to think a supportive media had some role to play, but it's hard to believe that journalists alone somehow managed to convince millions upon millions of people to buy iPods, iPhones and iPads.

Companies with healthier finances and carefully thought - out expansion plans have convinced Providence, R.I. - based Citizens Bank that they are good loan risks, says Quincy Miller, head of business banking.

Despite his initial reluctance, he was convinced to join because «I thought I might grab new customers in the area looking for a place to get coffee.»

But Spangenberg describes his latest, and what he thinks will be the biggest and longest - lasting investing idea he has ever had, as something he stumbled into as a result of a friend convincing him to buy bitcoin.

«Meanwhile, the masses are convinced that master's degrees and doctorates are the way to wealth, mostly because they are trapped in the linear line of thought that holds them back from higher levels of consciousness... The wealthy aren't interested in the means, only the end.»

Finland may not be the first place you think of to celebrate the arrival of spring, but Helsinki makes a convincing case thanks to its «Vappu» celebration, also known as May Day.

Indian and Western diplomats «are convinced that Hambantota will end up becoming a Chinese military and naval base, or another Djibouti,» the Observer Research Foundation, an Indian think tank, said in an October report.

The same intelligentsia who say Trump alienates everyone around him are convinced Howard Schultz has the name recognition to be a serious candidate for the serious issues, even though most Americans probably think Starbucks is run by some guy named Starbuck (who may also have a topless - mermaid fetish).

We buy things because we think they are worth more to us than we are paying for them and - more importantly - when we are convinced that they deliver something we don't now have, but definitely want.

It is a form of ingratiation, the Machiavellian idea of changing your behaviour in order to convince someone to think more highly of you.

Frank & Oak's Ratnani, for his part, seems convinced his company will be among the fittest: «I think we're going to be bigger than GAP,» he said, «we'll become the number one brand of the Internet generation.»

You need to convince anyone thinking of joining with your company, as an investor or in another way, that you offer something obviously different and better than what's already available.

You might not be thinking about what books, articles or speeches to create, but there has probably been a point in time where you have talked yourself out of pursuing something, because you convinced yourself that you lack a certain level of creativity that it takes to get the job done.

They thought the concept was great, but they were not convinced the consumer would understand how PackIt worked or why it was so different than any other bag.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

Instead of letting your fears get the best of you or letting self - diminishing thoughts convince you that you are not capable, really work at what goes into your mind and what you think about.

I think I just do whatever is most interesting to me at the time and it works for the people I'm working with, and I can convince other people I'm working with that there's value.

Still, while business owners are facing plenty of more immediately pressing struggles and will need to find their own unique approaches to parental leave, Siegel is convinced that the competition for talent will drive more and more companies to think hard about these sort of employee lifestyle issues.

Because Young Money's audience is driven to succeed, Romer thinks he can convince advertisers that his readers are more than «just boys»; they're the boys who'll make a difference.

I think states and cities should not bend over backwards without knowing what it means,» said Plotch, before making an analogy to a Simpsons episode in which a traveling salesman convinces Springfield residents to construct a faulty and unnecessary monorail while basic city needs are ignored.

«Meanwhile, the masses are convinced that master's degrees and doctorates are the way to wealth, mostly because they are trapped in the linear line of thought that holds them back from higher levels of consciousness,» he writes.

But being persuasive means being convincing — which means sounding intelligent, since few people spend much time listening to people they think are not intelligent.

It is thought by many observers that Nasdaq's bungled handling of Facebook's IPO helped convince Twitter's executives to take their business to the NYSE, a rival exchange.

But if you need to be convinced, here's the gist: «The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.

«That's a big challenge: convincing this amazing talent — all smarter than me, no exceptions — to think like me, to stop talking about the idea and build.»

«A lot of entrepreneurs don't think about that during the start - up phase, but I was convinced that we needed to plan for the back end of the investment up front.»

But the threat of a runaway PR fiasco that continues to infuriate consumers (and, in turn, may convince even reticent lawmakers to endorse more pricing regulations) is also causing major players to take their own actions — or at the very least to reconsider their thinking.

«I'd think you'd be convinced that this» — the company's diversity commitment — «isn't just a fad,» he says.

I don't doubt the momentum that EVs are building, but do you really think it will be enough to convince consumers to the point of having an effect on ICE sales as early as 2018?

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

Sam, great input (as always), posts like this keep me out of thinking about getting residential real estate into my investment portfolio, instead I focus on retail / industrial properties, however I think I could manage few residential units «on the side», because of lack of diversification I am thinking about buying a triplex at the moment, and I'm convinced that should be the last move and I would not touch the size of my real estate portfolio afterwards, remaining assets are going straight to stocks.

I read all the related articles months ago deciding whether it was something that could work for me, and wasn't convinced — possibly because it seemed more US focused particularly on healthcare benefits (which is not covered by employers here in Oz), but also just couldn't envisage any scenario where my firm would want to let me go (perhaps I think I'm more valuable than I really am??)

We think so, but we need convincing to believe that simply going to a labour based approach as proposed in the Jenkins report, along with decreasing the refundable portion of the credit over time are all that is needed to free up the monies and make the SR&ED incentives a truly effective instrument.

This is where that infamous Gundotra speech matters: I'm not convinced that anyone at Google fully thought through the implication of favoring Android with their services.

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

But, it's more difficult to control our own actions and thoughts than it is to over-trade or risk too much on a trade because you've convinced yourself that that «this» trade will be a winner.