If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally impor... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life 1. If you don’t believe the impossi... SHANNON L. ALDER If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. DANICA MCKELLAR If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN You should always do more of what you believe is right, even if you are trembling inside. WESAM FAWZI You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you c... ALAN SMITH If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing ... ANGELINA JOLIE I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y... FRANCES MCDORMAND With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems w... TRAVIS BRADBERRY I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're gr... JOEL OSTEEN If you really think you're right, you should tell it. CASS ELLIOT To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men sho... ROBERT JEFFRESS If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look... JOHN LEWIS If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. MARY KAY ASH Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. HENRY FORD If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you&... CHARO I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just ... STEVE HARVEY If you don't admit when you are wrong, people will not believe you when you are right. MICHAEL CHAD BUTCHER If you are reading this quote you are not dead, if you are not dead then you are alive, if you are a... ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise. ROBERT ATKINS I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... JOE NAMATH You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak th... SELENIS LEYVA If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better. RIKI LINDHOME It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Becau... WALLY AMOS If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right. HENRY FORD If you think that you are the only one who is right then please consult someone; If you believe that... DINESH KUMAR Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go... MITCH ALBOM If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you ca... EDIE BRICKELL I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wron... CARMELO ANTHONY I stand up for what I believe is right. I feel that if you make a promise, you keep it. HEATHER TURNER You can be all that you want to be. Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you reall... JASON CHAFFETZ You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, t... ELLEN HOPKINS If you can just believe that you are able to do anything, then you will be able to do the work of Go... SUNDAY ADELAJA If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. ARSENE WENGER If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't... DENIS WAITLEY I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. I... DREW GODDARD When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the dange... GEORGE CLOONEY If you have the right motivation and believe you can do something ... you can pretty much achieve wh... DERICK VIRGIL If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'... BARACK OBAMA If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that; you will help on by your pe... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You ... MERRICK GARLAND I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier ... JUSTIN WELBY I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading thi... JENNY AGUTTER I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't... MINDY GROSSMAN Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if... JORDAN SPIETH If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality. GREG GRAFFIN I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately w... MARY KARR That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can ... DAMIEN HIRST If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of cours... ALBERT BROOKS Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know i... EDDIE CAMPBELL If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on t... BUDDY HACKETT I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works.... ROBERT H. SCHULLER I believe that you can always learn from observation. TAMARA TUNIE I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you pl... CLIFF FLOYD If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your wa... LINDA ELLERBEE Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as ... LARRY BIRD If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying ... DAMIAN LEWIS Believe you can and you're halfway there. THEODORE ROOSEVELT You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing. STIPE MIOCIC In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-be... TELLER Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and y... JODI PICOULT It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you... PEACE PILGRIM There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you... PEACE PILGRIM I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in ... C. JOYBELL C. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. HENRY FORD That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the... ASHWIN SANGHI I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in. ZAYN MALIK I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong. JANET ECHELMAN I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them. DANA PERINO Just because you believe that someone should have a constitutional right, doesn't mean that you thin... E.R. ROCK Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are rea... ECKHART TOLLE If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy,... SUN-TZU I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w... USHER I personally wonder... regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, everybody comes i... BILL HASLAM 'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto! SOPHIE TURNER When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di... SAMUEL DASH Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are a... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are al... RALPH WALDO EMERSON And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, t... SHIA LABEOUF Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right HENRY FORD I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you c... OSCAR PISTORIUS As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'... JAKE OWEN If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief... DENIS WAITLEY Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you'... JON KRAKAUER Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. HENRY FORD I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better. DREW FULLER I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track. HOMARO CANTU I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you... TAYLOR LAUTNER If you can't fix what went wrong, then fix what you can make right. BRIGID KEMMERER If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integr... JOE BIDEN
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JULIAN CASTRO Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju... JULIAN CASTRO My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k... JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept... JULIAN CASTRO Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i... JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured. JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w... JULIAN PETERSON Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th... JULIAN BARNES I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is... JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit... JULIAN ASSANGE I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr... JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS The land of embarrassment and breakfast. JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th... JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin... JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j... JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall... JULIAN SCHNABEL