Whether it’s trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable–all communication is rhetoric in action.
– Leonard Koren
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- Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan. – Leonard Pitts Jr
- I’m trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure. – Koren Zailckas
- A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
- If you can’t convince you’re normal, convince they’re weird too. – Sarvesh Jain
- Don’t let the time convince you to quit, instead, convince the time to extend with patience. – Nathaniel E Quimada
- …that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art. – Frank Lentricchia
- Old marketing was dictation… new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert! – Ted Rubin
- It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth. – AJ Waines
- Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not. – CM Rayne
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
- Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason. – Miguel Queah
- Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric. – Amitav Chowdhury
- Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth. – Anna Deavere Smith
- Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this – Haidji
- Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: -œPeace, freedom and liberty! – Carl William Brown
- We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric. – Anna Deavere Smith
- Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for others. – Merlin Thomas – merlinthomas
- There is no communication with God without communication with God’s people – Sunday Adelaja
- The internet and online communication is the window into your world – but real life, in person communication / connection is the door. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal. – Dianna Booher
- All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. – Peter Grdenfors
- Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners – Chiolu Hope N
- To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence. – Haruki Murakami
- The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need. – Marieta Maglas
- I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
- Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive. – Sarah Miller
- The thing to remember when you’re writing is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader. – Charles de Lint
- Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning … except its own. – Leonard Bernstein
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself. – Bryant McGill
- ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion – Patricia Crone
- What you’ve done isn’t the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can’t they? – Erica Crouch
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. – EM Forster
- Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real. – Emilyann Girdner
- You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard. – Ruth Minshull