Lucian Freud Quotes

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.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

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

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

We convince by our presence.

Gesturing with his body and head rather than with his arms, he grew very impassioned and seemed transfigured. Then the inspiration that possessed him took possession of his hearers also. His speaking went to the heart because it came from the heart. I have heard celebrated orators who could start thunders of applause without changing any man’s opinion. Mr. Lincoln’s eloquence was of the higher type, which produced conviction in others because of the conviction in others because of the conviction of the speaker himself.

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

I'm very clear about my priorities - quality and credibility is important to me. A film and a character that lives beyond my years is important to me. People's love is important to me.

Overstating America's issues doesn't make us relatable; it makes others' issues easily dismissable.

'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.