Bruce William Powe Quotes

Success is a refined study of the obvious

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

"Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say something, to advertise something or to communicate it. Don't make a statement. Ask a question.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

The usefulest truths are the plainest.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.

But words are more powerful than anything.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!