persuasion

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity. Clarity of plot, clarity of message, clarity of the characters, clarity of the changes going on inside of them, clarity of the darkest moment -- but don't you dare be obvious ~ Persuasion for the Endowment of Sex Appeal (Academic Paper)

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

It__ amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you__e desperate enough.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and_" He stood up. "Let's dance.

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk _ that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Teddy White lamented that TV might spell the death of serious politics: to give a thoughtful response to serious questions, politician needed a good thirty seconds to ponder, but television allowed only five seconds of silence at best. DDB (ad men) found nothing to lament and the fact. They were convinced you could learn everything you needed to KNOW about a product, which in this case happens to be a human being, in half a minute _ the speed not of thought but of emotion.

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.

Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]