Quotes About Persuasive

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Ce n'est qu'avec la nuance qu'on peut avancer. Je tiens la nuance pour la forme la plus persuasive qui soit, et parfois la plus subversive. Ne pas mettre tout dans le même panier est devenu une rareté qui confine, malheureusement peut-être, à l'originalité.

exercise of power or simple social reasons. Sometimes the position of one group over another was inherently more persuasive or had a stronger claim to historical roots than other options, and so the group won because of factors rooted in the origins of the movement.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

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

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

I completely disagree with Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute on the need for dignity in the marketplace instead of the social safety net, but he is a very persuasive character.

I did not support the U.S. decision to intervene with military force in Libya. The evidence was not persuasive that a large-scale massacre or genocide was either likely or imminent. Policies other than military intervention were never given a full chance.

The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: 'Who wrote it, and when?' 'How did they know what to write?' 'Did they, in their time, really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?' 'Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?

The persuasive power of normal life is extravagant. To accept less than life when less is not overwhelmingly upon you is—at least for some—unacceptable.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

Because pessimism needs to counter that argument in order to be at all persuasive, a recurring theme in pessimistic theories throughout history has been that an exceptionally dangerous moment is imminent.

if no compulsion was allowed, then obviously such social coherence as did exist had to be created through reasoned debate, persuasive arguments and the establishment of social consensus.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.