Top 105 Elicit Quotes & Sayings

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

I taunt and provoke, but you have to understand that I do that for a reason. I want to elicit a response. Remember that my mission is to capture on film and digital recording devices evidence of the paranormal. Many times, I can't do that by being nice.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

I always enjoy speaking at schools. The questions are usually direct but courteous and designed to elicit an answer rather than to simply impress the friends of whoever is asking them.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information.

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

I always say that the horror genre and the comedy genre are close cousins because they are the two genres where you are attempting to elicit an involuntary vocal response from a crowd of people and you instantly know whether it's working or not.

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

I think subjectivity plays into everything. It's unavoidable; you couldn't avoid it if you tried. I think, potentially, a lot more commercial movies, it seems to be that the people making the films are trying to elicit the same reaction. I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good or not, but I do know that I was never committed enough to find out.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

While liberal, coastal white girls may constitute the most conspicuous purveyors of pumpkin spice, the flavor's cultural connotations and the strong opinions they elicit reveal the drink's profound conservatism.

It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.