J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

South African Author

Mary Beard

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

John Lahr

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

American Critic

Peter T. King

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

American Politician

Gianfranco Zola

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.

Italian Athlete

Banks

I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.

American Musician

Sridevi

Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.

Indian Actress

Suhasini Maniratnam

I have a great sense of humour. I am teasing, taunting and authoritative.

Alex Horne

And in real life, I'm actually quite authoritative and strict.

British Comedian

Solange Knowles

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

American Actress

Use 'authoritative' when referring to people or texts respected for their deep knowledge.

Trustworthy Experts

'Authoritative' doesn't mean infallible; even reliable sources can be questioned.

Not Always Right

An 'authoritative' source is especially knowledgeable in a particular subject or field.

Subject-Specific

An 'authoritative' person shows confidence and leadership, gaining respect.

Powerful Presence

'Authoritative' often implies someone who leads without needing to be forceful.

Subtle Command

Authority comes from experience and knowledge, not just position.

Earned Respect

 starters the salesman is a nicely dressed good-looking guy creating what's known as the halo effect people's first impression is that he seems knowledgeable and authoritative simply because of how he looks second he's taking advantage of expert bias traveled the world looking for minerals such as

The Con Artist Handbook...

 they knew and they said okay we're just not gonna you know let's just not mention it you know and you know in the absence of sort of authoritative accurate information from the top the all kinds of rumors spread you know oh it's people are dying from eating watermelons people are dying from

How to make pandemics...

 And so what I'm going to try to do today is to shake your confidence. Because I know the feeling -- I can feel it myself. I want to shake your confidence that you know your own innermost minds -- that you are, yourselves, authoritative about your own consciousness.

The illusion of...

 The problem in general is that it is not at all easy to universally enforce these rights or to punish transgressors. The UDHR itself, despite being highly authoritative and respected, is a declaration, not a hard law. So when individual countries violate it,

What are the universal...

 And, if you know that your assertions are going to be held up against more authoritative sources, it may create incentives for more responsible speech in the first place. Let me end with a hard the structures I've described can foster productive debate

How to foster productive...

 encouragement and enlightenment versus indifference and authoritative tyranny and says I have someone look at an image of brutality and to be able to see it in these architectural terms was really stunning to me I mean it's it's poetic

Storytellers Summit Day...

 It's got, by now, pretty good coverage of everything you might find in a standard reference library. But the goal is to go much further and, very broadly, to democratize all of this knowledge, and to try and be an authoritative

Computing a theory of...

 And this graph, I may think of it as all people who testify in a complicated crime case, but it may just as well be web pages pointing to each other, referring to each other for contents. Which ones are the most authoritative?

What's so sexy about...

 We can imagine a hypothetical world of "peak social media." What would that be like? It would mean when you get on, you can get really useful, authoritative medical advice instead of cranks.

How we need to remake...

 finished and remember walking towards the water a few steps and flicking the roach into the water all of a sudden it's very authoritative voice goes what are you doing here who's that