Persuasiveness Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method…
— Alfred Binet
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know…
— Giancarlo Esposito
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the…
— Susan Sontag
Who Wrote These Persuasiveness Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Persuasiveness Quotes as follows: