Arlene Dickinson Persuasion Quotes

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things. ~ Arlene Dickinson

I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all! ~ Arlene Dickinson

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver. ~ Arlene Dickinson

I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment. ~ Arlene Dickinson

If you're careful to listen to your instincts and question conventional wisdom, set priorities, and make thoughtful choices, eventually you will figure out how to design a lifestyle that suits you. ~ Arlene Dickinson

I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it. ~ Arlene Dickinson

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different. ~ Arlene Dickinson

There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap. ~ Arlene Dickinson

I've got a lot of businesses that I've invested in and I am really enjoying it. ~ Arlene Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door. ~ Emily Dickinson

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Not everybody believes in the possibility of political persuasion. Many people see political positions as expressions of innate personality traits - hard-wired into us either by our genes or by an irreversible process of socialization. Why should we waste time trying to be persuasive when people never really change their minds? This is a reasonable concern.

The idea that persuasion doesn't work comes from a bad application of good science. A substantial body of research suggests that our political beliefs are shaped by more or less fixed psychological characteristics ... Research like this, however, tells us about the difficulty of conversion, not persuasion. These are not the same things. We too often misrepresent the task of political persuasion by thinking of the most strident partisan we have ever encountered and imagining what it would take to turn that person into an equally strident partisan for the other side. This sort of Paul-on-the-Road-to-Damascus conversion rarely happens in politics. Most people don't change their fundamental values, and if we expect them to, we are going to be very disappointed.

But we usually don't need people to change their fundamental values in order to convince them to adopt a particular position. The fact that people have fundamental values makes it possible to persuade them by appealing to those values. But we have to find values that we really share. ~ Michael Austin

In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and not the truth. Each will be permitted to propagandize, each will have to propagandize if it is to hold its own, because it is acknowledged that there is no common ground for the alternative to propaganda, which is reasonable persuasion. ~ Richard John Neuhaus

The Loneliness One dare not sound
And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size
The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see
And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny
The Horror not to be surveyed
But skirted in the Dark
With Consciousness suspended
And Being under Lock
I fear me this
is Loneliness
The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate
or seal ~ Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup. ~ Emily Dickinson

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief. ~ Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. ~ Emily Dickinson

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship. ~ Amy Dickinson

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. ~ Bruce Dickinson

Consciousness is the only home of which we know. ~ Emily Dickinson

We were all very friendly but we were like 4 monarchs each doing their own thing. ~ Emily Dickinson

She died
this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side. ~ Emily Dickinson

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative. ~ Bruce Dickinson

Truth - is as old as God - ... ~ Emily Dickinson

I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well. ~ Brenda Hillman

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. ~ Emily Dickinson

There's this moment, just before it happens, when everything around you goes still. It's like that moment you get just before it snows - like nature is holding its breath ... And in that moment, anything is possible, and everything you know is called into question. ~ Miranda Dickinson

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet. ~ Emily Dickinson

Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart's territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson - sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love - the broken fragments, the fallen leaves - and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out - she's driving down your street. ~ Barbara Hamby

At the end of reasons comes persuasion. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating. ~ Nicholas Boothman