We have to convince our audience that what we're talking about matters.

We talked to the parents, tried to convince them about sending their children to school.

And we try to convince ourselves we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.

So I want to try and convince you in about 15 minutes that that's a ridiculous and ludicrous thing to do.

And I'm going to spend the next few minutes trying to convince you that physics can teach us something about marketing.

Do the smiles convince?

I can't convince them.

Tony said that it's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

It is hard to convince John.

Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.

Then you have to convince your colleagues.

After having spent more than a decade understanding, studying, and trying to convince policymakers and donors about what was wrong with Africa's agricultural markets, I decided it was time to do something about it.

The first is to tell you something about pollen, I hope, and to convince you that it's more than just something that gets up your nose.

I could not convince him of his mistake.

I tried to convince Tom to come home.

Although this perception may convince at first glance, it is ultimately based on generalizations that reveal more about its advocates than the actual reality on the ground.

And that's what I'd like to convince you of today.

And you have to, first you have to convince yourself.

She was asked to convince him to paint the house.

We weren't sure at all. And we managed to convince him.

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is the truth.

And, you know, we thought well, we tried to convince them.

So, I hope to convince you that complex doesn't always equal complicated.

Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must convince his countrymen that he is serious about implementing them. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar deserve more support for their plans.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists.

Tell them this story. Convince them to tell the story to another two persons.

But what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us?

And our job is to convince the authorities that these forests have to be protected.

It's never going to convince anybody to do something that they don't want to do.

I tried to convince myself that, No, no, I have worked for the policy changes.

And you see agenda this is marketing, this is politics trying to convince you to have one model versus another, trying to convince you to ignore a model and trust your feelings, marginalizing people with models you don't like.

And, secondly, to convince you that every home really ought to have a scanning electron microscope.

So really, any of these angles should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

But I'll try to convince you that spectroscopy is actually something which can change this world.

The Provisional Institutions must exert greater efforts to convince Kosovo Serbs to participate in the process.

The challenge was how to convince States of the added value of a rights based approach.

Now if you think about it, if I tossed a coin a hundred times, and I'm allowed to withhold from you the answers half the times, then I can convince you that I have a coin with two heads.

Bush s interest in running was enough to convince Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama, not to try a third time. But even the supposedly formidable Bush name was not enough to convince younger, scrappier candidates to step aside.

So we do quite a lot of work at IDEO trying to convince our clients of this.

She was asked to convince him to get his son or someone else to paint the house.

It also helped some ministries to convince colleagues in the relevant ministries to expedite payment of contributions.

If you can convince me we can do all that, then, yes, I would take the two percent.

I think the WorldWide Telescope will convince you that we may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant.