Persuasive Quotes - Page 6

• With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

  Theophile Gautier

  Powerful, Argument, Gentleness

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• A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

  Timothy Keller

  Believe, Doe, World

  Source: visionroom.com

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• I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Powerful, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Talking, Veteran, Making Changes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to us from within our shared morality, but engaging in something more like "persuasive definition." They want us to look at the world and ourselves in a different way. Someday these prohibitions against flying and eating meat may be written into our moral psychology, but it will only be after there are viable, widely shared alternatives that are beginning to be widely adopted.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Psychology, Flying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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• The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 572-73, Maxims. No. 9, 1922.

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• We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

  Edwin Land

  Messages, Dramatic, Being True

  "Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy" by Richard L. Garwin, November 9, 1991.

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• [Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Writing, Brutality

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Rumor, Dying

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• We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  David D. Burns

  Self Esteem, Believe, Persistence

  David D. Burns, M.D. (2013). “Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

  Lionel Shriver

  Doe, Arguing, Kind

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

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• Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

  Marcia Whicker

  Leadership, Self, Good Leader

  Marcia Lynn Whicker (1996). “Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad”, Praeger Publishers

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• If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

  Jim McKelvey

  Crazy, Believe, Ideas

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• Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Doors, Views

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Looks, Half, World

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For example, why they should buy from you, why your product is better than other similar products, why they should trust you, and why they should buy it now, etc.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Decision, Example

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• A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Propaganda, Linear

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• You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny.

  Wayne Dyer

  Destiny, Imagination, Matter

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.120, Hay House, Inc

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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.

  Michael Hastings

  Iraq, Facts, Impossible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this, I do think as well that a priori objections by philosophers to successful research programs in the sciences have a very bad track record.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Snakes, Oil, People

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• "Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say something, to advertise something or to communicate it. Don't make a statement. Ask a question.

  Frank Luntz

  Powerful, Way, Sides

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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