We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
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
“using other people’s standards is a highly persuasive way to achieve your goals.” — Stuart Diamond Copy Share Image
“I think you’re understating the persuasive power of our girl parts, but let’s put that aside for a minute. You don’t think… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
"Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say… — Frank Luntz 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
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world. — Ignatius of Antioch 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
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
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
Note the energy with which the media is going after Donald Trump Jr. And there's a reason. They want to dirty him… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma 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
Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn 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
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
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed… — Stephenie Meyer 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
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