You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like. — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story… — Nancy Duarte 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
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious."… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases,… — Anonymous 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
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen 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
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
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
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
