It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally. — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
“using other people’s standards is a highly persuasive way to achieve your goals.” — Stuart Diamond Copy Share Image
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader… — Walter Wangerin Copy Share Image
Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance. — Marcia Whicker Copy Share Image
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You’re here for a reason. You’re here because you want to transform your speaking skills and become a powerfully persuasive” — Akash Karia Copy Share Image
Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they… — David McClelland Copy Share Image
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer Copy Share Image
I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it. — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive. — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive. — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
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