Persuasive famous quotes

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
-- Aldous Huxley

#Voice #Sound #Persuasive

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.
-- Antony Flew

#Design #Argument #Persuasive

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

#Sound #Persuasive #Compelling

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
-- Charlotte Beers

#Passion #Belief #Persuasive

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
-- Clifford Geertz

#Criticism #Research #Persuasive

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Vivid #Moral #Persuasive

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

#Messages #Dramatic #Persuasive

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Zero #Outcomes #Persuasive

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Passion #Men #Persuasive

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Power #Persuasive #Rhetoric

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 I'm truly persuasive.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Heart #Trying #Persuasive

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
-- Janet Frame

#Freedom #Men #Persuasive

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.
-- Janette Rallison

#Persuasive

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.
-- Jay Baer

#Information #Persuasive #Relevant

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
-- John Szarkowski

#Goal #Persuasive

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 #Persuasive

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
-- Rashida Jones

#Believe #Enough #Persuasive

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
-- Theophile Gautier

#Powerful #Argument #Persuasive

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 #Persuasive

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.
-- Steve Inskeep

#Identity #Persuasive #Liberalism

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 #Persuasive