Top 590 Rhetorical Strategies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them.

Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out to be undeliverable. It was a false prospectus.

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to say homosexuality is wrong...you are a homophobe, which means you have a mental illness. That's what's built into this terminology.

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Those who know me are aware that I stand by my mistakes or non-working strategies.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

We all need strategies for facing unknown repertory.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

President Obama is asking critics of the Iran nuclear deal what the alternative is other than war as if it's rhetorical question, but there is an answer: a better deal.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

No matter what strategies you make, if you don't get the right script, everything is going to go down.

The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.