Quotes About Communication

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Actually my brother didn't think Imran was religious enough for me. I had to persuade him.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook get to decide whether or not you get pertinent information about national security issues in your country.

Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.