“Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you’ll never get your balls back.” - Simon Hunt” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“Like most pathological personalities, *Andrew MacIntosh never cared much whether what he said was true or not - and so he was… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs… — Ruth Simmons 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
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer 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
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that… — David D. Burns 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
The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again… — Jeremy Bean Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They… — Karen Abbott 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
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think really the thing you should focus on is why you're for Ted Cruz, 'cause that's I think probably much more… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud 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
I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen… — Stu Weber 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
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when… — Daniel H. Pink 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
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith 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
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Word of mouth is more effective than traditional advertising for two key reasons. First, it’s more persuasive. Second, word of mouth is… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
How have you been? You’re still as beautiful as ever.” “As are you, my dear. I love your shoes.” “Aren’t they delightful?… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
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