"Good argument is intended to persuade another." — Barry Eisler

"Good argument is intended to persuade another."

— Barry Eisler

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21 Quotes by Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on…
I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already…
The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office…
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a…
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost…
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche…
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is…
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure…

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More Argument Quotes

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere… — David Attenborough
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen… — Roger Bacon
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. — Lord Acton
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can… — Hosea Ballou
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. — Douglas Adams
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. — John Barrymore
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations… — Mario Batali
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our… — Bob Beauprez
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison

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