Sentence examples for persuading yourself from inspiring English sources

Recording their conversations was, said Featherstone, also about "trying to keep hold of something; persuading yourself that something is not transient".

When you're in the middle of it -- taking a vow to give up sleep and persuading yourself that a "deep cleansing breath" will solve all your problems -- you think you'll never forget the horror.

I suspect fatalistic mindgames are just a way of persuading yourself that you've accepted your mortality when you haven't, rather like planning your funeral and giving yourself a cracking view of the whole thing from some kind of psychic royal box.

You persuade yourself it's to achieve a certain end.

But you can certainly persuade yourself that you are".

And you can persuade yourself that that's the whole house, but it's not.

Then, 10 minutes later, you persuade yourself it's just another 10".

Then you can persuade yourself that what you are doing is moral and necessary.

If you can persuade yourself to see David Cameron as a megaplayer, then Clegg could make a convincing micropower.

"It's really hard to eat fried chicken and persuade yourself that it's better for you," says Technomic's Dennis Lombardi.

It's a question of whether you can persuade yourself it's worth doing and whether you can persuade voters to elect you".