Benedict Cumberbatch

My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.

English Actor

George Nethercutt

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

American Politician

Antoni Porowski

I have a lot of different passions. Food has been a constant through my whole life; it's something I've always had a very intrinsic passion toward and for, and I continue to learn about it, and I'm not going to let any type of negative comments dissuade me from wanting to pursue that, because I love it.

Canadian Actor

Jennifer Tilly

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

American Actress

Douglas Murray

It's unwise to say nation-states wanting to retain their national identity in Europe should be dissuaded or stopped from doing so. Nationalism can go wrong, sure - but everything can go wrong.

Carl Hiaasen

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

American Writer

Ezra Taft Benson

Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.

American Leader

Eli Wallach

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

American Actor

Carmen Ejogo

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.

British Actress

Ritesh Agarwal

I don't dissuade people from formal education. What I encourage them to do is to follow their dreams.

Indian Businessman

Dissuade carries a sense that the action being discouraged is potentially harmful or undesirable.

Negative Connotation

Using 'dissuade' implies efforts to persuade someone with strong reasons or arguments.

Strong Persuasion

'Dissuade from' is more common when talking about an action, 'dissuade against' is usually for general ideas or decisions.

Collocation Usage

 through his Experience Machine thought experiment. Despite the machine's promise of maximum net pleasure, he still found reason not to plug in, as do many other experimenters who consider the proposition. But what could possibly dissuade us from choosing a future of ultimate pleasure? Consider this scenario.

Would you opt for a life...

 raid your enemy and it came to the attention of wheelers battalion that the Germans had put two saps within 30 feet of their line he was given the order of dark November night to go over the top with his 125 men and not only to eliminate these saps but to do it in the way the Germans would be dissuaded from

The Unsung Hero of...

 in line and also don't be afraid to send multiple emails i never actually feel badgered um if people send me two or three emails because sometimes i'm a little slow to respond so do that and be persistent and and give it a try if you really want to um and don't let anybody dissuade you

Reimagining Dinosaurs...

 to get a simple health check done, is very, very detrimental in the sense that it really dissuades people from getting access to health care. So if there was something that she could do, that would be amazing. So what we did was that we converted this device into a medical device.

Vinay Venkatraman:...

 trying to find a worthy ruler to serve, while holding fast to his principles. It wasn't easy. In accordance with his philosophy, and contrary to the practice of the time, Confucius dissuaded rulers from relying on harsh punishments and military power

Who was Confucius? -...

 to see if the planet was habitable or if there were lifeforms there. Well, we don't need to travel at warp speeds to see other planet atmospheres, although I don't want to dissuade any budding engineers from figuring out how to do that.

Sara Seager: The search...

 which is not that much, but don't be dissuaded, I showered this morning, please still come talk to me after the show. But most of my showers looked like this, so being an adventure photographer means

My Life As an Adventure...

 it with shovel and hit her but it didn't dissuade her and she reached up and basically removed the center of my face then we went down on the ground and she grabbed my left knee and drugged me

"It Really Wasn't the...

 I would say first, don't ignore the scientists. When there is virtual unanimity among the scientific and medical experts, pay attention. Don't let some politician dissuade you.

The new urgency of...

 within two and a half seconds she was on me I swung at it with a shovel and hit her but it didn't dissuade her and she