Persuasive Quotes

• Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

  

  William Congreve
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Magic

• As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Memories

• Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • Heart
  • Revolution
  • Transformation

• It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Justice
  • Should
  • Social

• Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

  

  Euripides
  • Money
  • Arguments
  • Persuasive

• Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Strong
  • Exciting
  • Dramatic

• Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Design
  • Creativity
  • Accepted

• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.

  

  Geoff Nicholson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Simple
  • Stories
  • Intelligent

• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Long
  • Speak
  • Green

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Political
  • Community

• The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane Fonda. You know, if you are slightly conservative or even libertarian points of view, especially if you are persuasive and charismatic and funny and effective, you will get called the most appalling things.

  

  Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Environment
  • Conservative
  • Persuasive

• 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
  • Motive
  • Persuasive