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• Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

  Charlotte Beers

  Perfection, Care, Speech

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• Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

  Charlotte Beers

  Sound, Compelling, Who You Are

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.215, Vanguard Press

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• Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

  Charlotte Beers

  Passion, Belief, Born

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• Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.

  Fred Barnes

  Book, Redneck, Race

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• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. People love to read stories. They like to know you as a real person who has your struggle, pain, success and failure, etc. One well-known example is Jared Fogle's weight loss story which made millions of dollars for Subway. Start to collect your stories from today and use them in your ad campaigns.

  David Ogilvy

  Pain, Real, Struggle

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• Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

  Dale Carnegie

  Good Listener, Listeners

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Rights, Talking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should be compelled to take up arms, or be forced to kill or risk being killed... But who can blame prospective volunteers from doubting that there is a threat from Iraq? The Bush administration has yet to make a persuasive argument to that effect.

  Sheldon Richman

  Iraq, Volunteer, Risk

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• I think really the thing you should focus on is why you're for Ted Cruz, 'cause that's I think probably much more persuasive. If you're trying to change people's minds about Donald Trump, tell 'em why you're for Cruz, 'cause you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it. And the reason you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it is because they're feeling something really good, and they don't want to let go of that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

  Philip Schultz

  Art, Powerful, Struggle

  Source: poems.com

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• Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.In my new book, I open with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld. In October 2001, he said of Afghanistan: "It's not a quagmire." Ten years later there are 150,000 Western troops there.

  Michael Hastings

  Book, Quagmire, October

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

  Mark Dever

  Should, Elsewhere, Keep Going

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Greatness, Tasks, World

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• Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Ideas, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Special, Literature

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.26, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Mind, Reason, Policy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.

  Sheri Fink

  Reality, Perspective, Sound

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Giving, Generations

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

  Thornton Wilder

  Problem, Revival, Rhetorical

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• Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

  Steve Inskeep

  Identity, Liberalism, Expressive

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 14, 2013

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• You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

  Parmenides

  Heart, Opinion, All Things

  Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, "Against the Mathematicians", vii. 3,

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• As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Moving, Past

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Men, Religion

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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