Barry Eisler

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.

American Novelist

George Monbiot

We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.

British Writer

Donald Rumsfeld

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.

American Politician

Christopher Hitchens

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.

American Author

Irvin Mayfield

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.

American Musician

John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

American President

Ken Liu

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.

American Writer

Lao Tzu

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Chinese Philosopher

Edward R. Murrow

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

American Journalist

Amanda de Cadenet

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

English Photographer

Words that stir emotions can make persuasive messages more impactful.

Emotionally Charged

'Persuasive' doesn't mean the argument is necessarily good, just effective.

Not Always Positive

Non-verbal cues like eye contact can make someone more persuasive.

Body Language Matters

Repeating key points can make a persuasive message more memorable.

Repetition Works

Persuasive messages often tap into people's desires or fears.

Appeals to Desires

A clear, straightforward message is often more persuasive than a complex one.

Clarity is Key

 might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do. So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay

How to have better...

 The second is we need new models and accountability systems so that as the world gets better and more and more persuasive over time -- because it's only going to get more persuasive -- that the people in those control rooms are accountable and transparent to what we want.

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 imposter she was someone who had pulled this off many times before and would go on to do it again by the time we catch up with her in Ireland she has already been convicted twice a fraud in Australia didn't serve either sentence because she's very persuasive and very

Storytelling can be...

 In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense? According to Aristotle, there are three persuasive ethos,

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 Now, we are creatures of narrative, and a string of facts and figures, however important facts and figures are -- and, you know, I'm an empiricist, I believe in facts and figures -- but those facts and figures have no power to displace a persuasive story.

The new political story...

 And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive that I started to legitimately fear for my life, which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days -- and I will never forget this moment -- I said, "I am either going to kill myself

The game that can give...

 understanding this study is not to think of the pair as a sound but to think of it as a vibration a very real physical force that is traveling throughout the entire body and the evidence to back this theory up is very persuasive a

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 have to explain very clearly the facts and the signs and what are the impacts of each option and then be persuasive so everybody's on board of one single solution and we believe that marine reserves when they are fully protected

Compelling Models for...

 to financial assets and living arrangements. Cults also demand obedience to human leaders who tend to be highly persuasive people with authoritarian and narcissistic streaks motivated by money, sex, power, or all three.

Why do people join...

 Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But there's a problem with that.