Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more… — Andrei Shleifer Copy Share Image
A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough. — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive. — Charlotte Beers 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
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
