Richard Ojeda Quotes

The facts are on our side.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

I just love to defend!

If one wants to take a stand on something, one must be very educated about it.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

I know where my priorities lie.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.