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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Lie
Enemy
Myth
Great Enemy
Deliberate
Unrealistic
Very
Persistent
Contrived
Often
Dishonest
Persuasive
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu
Beautiful
Good
Communication
Words
Good Words
Beautiful Words
Truthful
Persuasive
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Must
Truthful
Persuasive
Believable
Credible
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
David Ogilvy
Will
More
Advertising
Informative
Persuasive
Your
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
Aristotle
Other
Statement
Statements
Directly
Self-Evident
Because
Proved
Either
Persuasive
Appears
Credible
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.
Christopher Hitchens
God
Argument
Say
Evidence
More
Only
Well
Than
Any
Afterlife
Persuasive
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy
Life
Best
Good
Experience
My Life
Valid
Out
Good Ones
Some
Somehow
Ads
True
Over
Come
Real
Personal
Personal Experience
Done
Really
Persuasive
Theory
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Amanda de Cadenet
Life
Learning
My Life
Has-Been
Both
Crucial
How
Been
Personally
Really
Persuasive
Professionally
I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.
Ana Patricia Botin
Myself
Consider
Quite
Want
Persuasive
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
Andrew Pyper
Me
Satan
Paradise
Argument
Lost
Few
Dilemma
Carried
Details
About
Remembered
True
Protagonist
Read
Pitiable
Little
Persuasive
University
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Barry Eisler
You
Do-It-Yourself
Yourself
Argument
Important
Whatever
Approach
Addressing
Rule
Would
Find
Someone
Point
Overall
Most
Were
The Golden Rule
Golden
The Most Important
Want
Golden Rule
Persuasive
Use
Your
Her
Tone
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade
Travel
Liberty
Men
Power
Considerations
Unconscious
Road
Along
Exerted
Am
Current
Persuasive
Drag
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen
Confidence
Result
Sometimes
Illusion
Past
Conviction
Interpretation
Too
Intoxicating
Carries
Direct
Direct Contact
Contact
Mistaken
Coming
May
Often
Persuasive
Belief
Needed
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
Out
Find
Point
How
Anthropology
Replace
Literary
Literary Criticism
Persuasive
I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.
Derren Brown
More
Head
Go
Than
Person
Just
Want
Next
Persuasive
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller
Power
Most
Rhetoric
Persuasive
Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.
Gene Weingarten
Work
World
Live
Like
Call
Because
Opinions
Arts
Capital
Persuasive
Racket
Washington
Seat
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
Try
Be Careful
Know
Ulterior
Motive
Truly
Behind
Then
Really
Persuasive
Careful
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Life
Faithful
Most
Exemplary
Gospel
Tract
Saint
Persuasive
The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.
Greg Gutfeld
You
First
Own
Correct
Out
Must
See
Admit
Could
Step
Wrong
Truly
Flaws
Themselves
Then
Persuasive
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.
Ivan Illich
Power
Sense
Our
Possibilities
Only
Shape
Institutions
Preferences
Created
Persuasive
Actually
American liberals are an external part of Israel's conscience, and when it disdains them, it becomes a harder and more isolated place. The support that Israel has gained from millenarian American conservatives is no substitute, in part because such allies aren't persuasive global advocates for Israel.
Jacob Weisberg
Conservatives
Liberals
More
Allies
Part
Support
Global
Because
Advocate
Becomes
Isolated
Israel
Disdain
American
Substitute
Place
Gained
Them
Persuasive
Harder
Conscience
External
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
Jeff Flake
You
Try
Think
Stubborn
Missionary
Gotta
Persuasive
I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.
Jesse Eisenberg
You
Thought
Thinking
Tell
Kind
Somehow
Guy
He
Call
Always
Still
Go
Up
Get
Quite
Middle
Woody
Persuasive
Who
Night
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
Jim McKelvey
Crazy
You
People
Build
Believe
Idea
Go
Get
Just
Persuasive
Your
When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.
Joe Lonsdale
Time
Strong
Reading
Opposing
Thinking
Spend
Later
Find
About
Area
Firm
True
Come
Well
Frequently
Conclusions
Am
Lot
Time Reading
Very
Discussing
Often
Really
Persuasive
View
Viewpoint
Exposed
Why
Appreciate
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