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Letter "P" » persuade
«In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
consent, critical, Critical thinking, Personal experience, persuade, persuasiveness
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| Keywords:
appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
acknowledge, acknowledges, laughing, laugh at, My ideas, open to, particular, persuade
«It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.»
«Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.»
«History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.»
«Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Relationships
| Keywords:
compromise, discourage, discourages, discouraging, Good Neighbors, lawyer, litigation, neighbors, peacemaker, peacemakers, persuade, superior, The Good Neighbor
«It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands»
Author: Andre Gide
| About:
Army,
Persuasion,
Violence
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, decent, fall from, fellows, massacre, persuade, The Soldier, urged
«It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
heat, persuade, running away, see the light, showing, shunned
«Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
orator, persuade
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