rhetoric

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
12e2407	You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.	politics prejudices rhetoric propaganda	Robert A. Heinlein
f66ebc5	As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything - from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.	learning grades imitation rhetoric school	Robert M. Pirsig
09fe9e6	There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.	discussion rhetoric propaganda logic	Hannah Arendt
84fc8a5	"When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it."	philosophy rhetoric	Peter Kreeft
6167e05	Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.	story writing music song motivational philosophy wisdom inspirational advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer background-music background-score band catch-lines catchphrases concert drums michael-jackson movie-dialogue music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians playing pop script-writing scriptwriting speechwriting tag-lines vocal singer book-writing essay script instruments sound proverbs rock creative-writing rhetoric guitar singing novel-writing movie public-speaking quotes tune movies melody characters knowledge speech artist soul touch	Amit Kalantri
9df47fd	.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.	simile rhetoric	Mark Haddon (Author)
a347a34	whoever approaches his goal dances	spiritual rhetoric	Cormac McCarthy
4e1a7d9	Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.	rhetoric communication	Leonard Koren
b141f4d	A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.	word-choice rhetoric vocabulary persuasion	Frank Herbert
232941c	Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.	leadership motivation word-choice linguistics rhetoric	Philip Zaleski
e6cb3ce	It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.	pollitics oratory rhetoric promises	Kim Stanley Robinson
e134e1f	An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.	writing rhetoric	Edith Hamilton
4ebfbdf	"How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing."	rhetoric perspective	Alison Bechdel
767590c	"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."	reading inspiration word-choice rhetoric maturation vocabulary	Harold Bloom
0c72715	Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.	leadership motivation education rhetoric	Robert A. Caro
2c0b9bb	He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.	learning outlines what-is-quality how-to-write research rhetoric writing-craft quality writing-process teaching	Robert M. Pirsig
e8ed53c	The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.	rhetoric persuasion	Barbara W. Tuchman
bccc8ea	He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;	rhetoric vision	Robert A. Caro
daf977f	Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.	rhetoric	Barbara W. Tuchman
d4bb376	House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.	motivation word-choice rhetoric	Barbara W. Tuchman
6a108a3	Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.	rhetoric persuasion	Robert A. Caro
1712750	Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.	rhetoric	Anna Deavere Smith
62ddfbc	[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.	politics rhetoric	Chuck Klosterman

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Robert A. Heinlein

f66ebc5

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything - from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

learning grades imitation rhetoric school

Robert M. Pirsig

09fe9e6

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

discussion rhetoric propaganda logic

Hannah Arendt

84fc8a5

"When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it."

philosophy rhetoric

Peter Kreeft

6167e05

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

story writing music song motivational philosophy wisdom inspirational advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer background-music background-score band catch-lines catchphrases concert drums michael-jackson movie-dialogue music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians playing pop script-writing scriptwriting speechwriting tag-lines vocal singer book-writing essay script instruments sound proverbs rock creative-writing rhetoric guitar singing novel-writing movie public-speaking quotes tune movies melody characters knowledge speech artist soul touch

Amit Kalantri

9df47fd

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

simile rhetoric

Mark Haddon (Author)

a347a34

whoever approaches his goal dances

spiritual rhetoric

Cormac McCarthy

4e1a7d9

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

rhetoric communication

Leonard Koren

b141f4d

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

word-choice rhetoric vocabulary persuasion

Frank Herbert

232941c

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

leadership motivation word-choice linguistics rhetoric

Philip Zaleski

e6cb3ce

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

pollitics oratory rhetoric promises

Kim Stanley Robinson

e134e1f

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

writing rhetoric

Edith Hamilton

4ebfbdf

"How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing."

rhetoric perspective

Alison Bechdel

767590c

"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

reading inspiration word-choice rhetoric maturation vocabulary

Harold Bloom

0c72715

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

leadership motivation education rhetoric

Robert A. Caro

2c0b9bb

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.

learning outlines what-is-quality how-to-write research rhetoric writing-craft quality writing-process teaching

Robert M. Pirsig

e8ed53c

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

rhetoric persuasion

Barbara W. Tuchman

bccc8ea

He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;

rhetoric vision

Robert A. Caro

daf977f

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

rhetoric

Barbara W. Tuchman

d4bb376

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

motivation word-choice rhetoric

Barbara W. Tuchman

6a108a3

Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.

rhetoric persuasion

Robert A. Caro

1712750

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

rhetoric

Anna Deavere Smith

62ddfbc

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

politics rhetoric

Chuck Klosterman