"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his"

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Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.55, Univ of California Press

Kenneth Burke

#Attitude Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.”
“We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.”
“A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.”
“They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.”
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.”
“I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.”
“If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.”
“I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.”

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