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I am a very persuasive man.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive.
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.
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.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
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.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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.
A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.