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;void(0)) . . . PERCEPTIONS see: "INSIGHT" see: "REALITY" see: "TRUTH" see "BELIEF" for other related links see "THE MIND" for other related links Appearances often are deceiving. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ "The Wolf in Sheep Clothing" - This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. --William Blake (17571827) English poet. _The Everlasting Gospel_ [c.1818], sec. 5, l. 101 As a man is, so he sees. --William Blake (17571827) English poet. Letter to Rev. D. Trusler [23 August 1799]. - We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions. --James Fenimore Cooper (17891851) American novelist. _The American Democrat_ [1838] Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. _Valley of Fear_ - The world is his who can see through his pretension. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. In a Phi Beta Kappa oration [31 August 1837]. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_, First Series [1841], "Circles" I suppose you could never prove to the mind of the most ingenious mollusk that such a creature as a whale was possible. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Entry written May 1848, in _Journals_ [1909-1914]. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Fortune of the Republic_ [1878] To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Journal_ [22 December 1822] You cannot see the mountain near. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. - ^^ The portrayal of lawyers in literature (if you can call it that), on TV, and in the movies has grown darker, more cynical. The same is true of law enforcement officers. At one time, police, detectives, and others of this breed were usually portrayed sympathetically. Once in a while, the police were shown as bumbling fools, as in the old silent movies about the Keystone Kops. In most "private eye" novels and movies the private eye, not the police, solves the case. This tradition is at least as old as Sherlock Holmes, whose instincts were always sounder than those of poor Inspector Lestrade. But in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and in most novels about private eyes, the police were merely incompetent, or less acute than Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot or Miss Silver or the other amateurs; they were rarely if ever brutal and malevolent. Until roughly the 1960s, the FBI and the CIA were also invariably good guys heroic crime fighters, as shown on such programs as the FBI in Peace and War. But this is emphatically no longer the case. Portrayals of the police, the CIA, the FBI in the late decades of the century were negative, if not downright paranoid. This is true, too, of portrayals of government in general: movies, in particular, peddle the most extreme conspiracy theories: about the Kennedy assassination, or the machinations of the CIA. In The Manchurian Candidate, the Communists brainwash a man and train him to carry out an assassination that would turn the government over to evil conspirators. (The plot fails in the end.) The president is not immune from these images of darkness. True, in Air Force One the president (a handsome dog played by Harrison Ford) is as heroic as one can possibly get. In other movies of the 1990s, however, the president has been a villain; or even a deep-dyed criminal. Earlier, in Dr. Strangelove, the president was sensible enough, but he was surrounded by dangerous fools, and a lunatic in the air force set off a nuclear holocaust: this was a black comedy indeed. Popular culture is also quite ambiguous in the way it portrays the outlaw, the gunman, the Mafia the people on the other side of the law. Hays office rules insisted that crime must not pay; criminals had to be brought to justice. [ . . . ] --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930 ) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 20 "Taking Stock" pp. 593-594 ^^ Men who are out of humor with themselves often see their own condition in the world outside them, and everything seems amiss because it is not well with themselves. --James A. Froude (18181894) English historian. _Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years, 1795-1835_ [1882] Things are not always what they seem. --Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C. c. 50 A.D.) The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin. _Fables_, bk. IV, fable 2, l. 5 The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. --Horace Greeley (18111872) American newspaper editor. _The American Conflict_ [18641866] If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. --S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (19061992) English professor and academic; U.S. Senator from California [19771983]. He does not weep who does not see. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Miserables_ [1862], "Jean Valjean" - The blindness in human beings. . . is the blindness with which we are all afflicted in regard to the feelings of creatures and people different from ourselves. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings" an address published in _Talks to Teachers on Psycology_ [1899] Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. - The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. --Helen Keller (18801968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. The subtlest and most pervasive of influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. In Gregory Sawin _Thinking & Living Skills_, p. 255 [1995]. For some reason or other, the European has rarely been able to see America except in caricature. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners" [1869] We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. _Seduction of the Minotaur_ [1959] Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. --Grace Paley (1922 ) American author. "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" [1960] It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their time. --Thomas Brackett Reed (18391902 In an address c. 1899, quoted in William Alexander Robinson _Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian_ [1930]. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. --Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (17821857) Russian-born French writer and salon hostess. Honor wears different coats to different eyes. --Barbara Tuchman {nθe Wertheim} (19121989) American historian and author. _The Guns of August_ [1962] - All the world is queer but me and thee, dear; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer. --attributed to a Quaker addressing his wife. ----- acumen uh-KYOO-muhn; AK-yuh-muhn, noun: Quickness of perception or discernment; shrewdness shown by keen insight. ken [KEN], noun: 1. Perception; understanding; knowledge. 2. The range of vision. 3. View; sight. nephelococcygia (noun) [ne-fκ-lκ-kκ-'si-jee-yκ ] 1: (Literally, "Cloudcuckoosville") Interpreting the shapes of clouds. 2: La-la land, a dream land cut off from reality. Nephelococcygia was dreamed up by Aristophanes for his comedy, "The Birds" (414 BC)  . . see "MISTAKES" for related links The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. --Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, _Cuture and Anarchy_ [1869] ch. 1 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. --Augustine, St. of Hippo (354-430) Christian theologian If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling, and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. --Bruce Barton (1886-1967) American advertising executive, religious writer, and Congressman When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregational minister, _Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1887] If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885) American humorist Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694-1773) British writer and politician. In Charles Strachey {ed.} _The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son_ [1901] Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. --Salvadore Dali (1904-1989) Spanish painter To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the others. --Diogenes Laλrtius (fl. early 3rd century) Greek author noted for his history of Greek philosophy. ^ Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959) American statesman. Asked whether he had ever been wrong, Dulles considered the question for some time before replying. 'Yes,' he finally admitted, 'once-- many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have *thought* that I was wrong.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. --Michael J. Fox (1961- ) Canadian-born actor Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [July 1755] The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. --Gerard Groote (1340-1384) Dutch Roman Catholic reformer; some scholars believe Groote was the author of "The Imitation of Christ" The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. --William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist - He that pleases himself too much with minute exactness, and submits to endure nothing in accommodations, attendance, or address below the point of perfection, will, whenever he enters the crowd of life, be harassed with innumerable distresses, from which those who have not in the same manner increased their sensations find no disturbance. His exotic softness will shrink at the coarseness of vulgar felicity, like a plant transplanted to northern nurseries from the dews and sunshine of the tropical regions. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer - - It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear: The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot; And there's a legal limit to the snow here In Camelot. The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order Summer lingers through September In Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! I know it sounds a bit bizarre; But in Camelot, Camelot That's how conditions are. The rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. In short, there's simply not A more congenial spot For happ'ly-ever-aftering than here In Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! I know it gives a person pause, But in Camelot, Camelot Those are the legal laws. The snow may never slush upon the hillside. By nine P.M. the moonlight must appear. In short, there's simply not A more congenial spot For happ'ly-ever-aftering than here In Camelot. Each evening from December to December Before you drift to sleep upon your cot, Think back on all the tales that you remember Of Camelot. Ask ev'ry person if he's heard the story, And tell it strong and clear if he has not: That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory Called Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! Now say it out with love and joy! Camelot! Camelot! Yes, Camelot, my boy ... Where once it never rained till after sundown; By eight A.M. the morning fog had flown ... Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot. --Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) American playwright and lyricist, "Camelot," 1960 song from the stage production of the same name. {music by Frederic Loewe (1901-1988) Austrian-American composer} - There is no man so good that if he place all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French moralist and essayist, _Essays_ [1595], Book III, Chapter 9 Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. --Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) French poet, dramatist, and author All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. --Robert Owen (1771-1858) Welsh-born socialist reformer (Speaking to his wife about his business partner, William Allen [1828]) Which was performed to a T. --Franηois Rabelais (c. 1494- c. 1553] French humanist, satirist, and physician _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ [1548] bk. 4, ch. 18 Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough. --Sir Frederick Henry Royce Founder of Rolls-Royce The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) American-born man of letters He who does not become perfect in small things will never be so in the great things. --St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) Roman Catholic missionary ----- paragon PAIR-uh-gon; -guhn, noun: A model of excellence or perfection; as, "a paragon of beauty; a paragon of eloquence." persnickety (adj.) 1. Fussy or demanding. Syn.: particular, fussy, fastidious Similar: squeamish, picky, hypercritical, exacting, finicky, 2. Requiring painstaking care of detail. Synonyms: particular Similar: nitpicking, meticulous, fussy, exacting, punctilious Derived: persnicketiness, n. . . see "WORK" for related links These quotes were taken from performance evaluations: Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig. His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity. I would not allow this employee to breed. This employee should go far - and the sooner he starts, the better. This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definitely won't be. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap. He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle. This young lady has delusions of adequacy. He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them. This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot. . . see: "THE BODY" To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior'. --Rita Rudner (1956- ) American stand-up comedian . . It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. --Alice Miller (1923- ) German psychoanalyst  PERSEVERANCE & PERSISTENCE . . see "SUCCESS" for related links see also: "ABILITY" The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher]. In Les Parrott _The Control Freak_, p. 24 [2000]. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. --Dale Carnegie (18881955) American writer and lecturer. - If you're going through hell, keep going. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never in anything great or small, large or petty never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Address at Harrow School [29 October 1941]. - The comeback kid! --Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (1946 ) American Democratic statesman and president [19932001]. Description of himself after coming in second in the New Hampshire primary [1992]. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. Attributed; in the program of a memorial service for Coolidge. . . . You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. --Russell Crowe (1964 ) New Zealand-born film actor. Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for "Gladiator" [2001]. Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. You will fetter my leg, but not Zeus himself can get the better of my free will. --Epictetus (55135) Greek philosopher. The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance. --Owen Feltham (c. 1610c. 1678) English religious writer. Pick yourself up, Dust yourself off, Start all over again. --Dorothy Fields (19051974) American lyricist. "Pick Yourself Up" [1936 song] If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it. --attributed to W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (18801946) American vaudeville star and film actor. Energy and persistence conquer all things. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _Light from Many Lamps_ by Lillian Eichler Watson, (Editor) - Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese Proverb Money grows on the tree of persistence. --Japanese Proverb - Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Rasselas_ [1759] When the going gets tough, the tough get going. --attributed to Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) American financier Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingerposts on the road to achievement. --Charles F. Kettering (18761958) American inventor. I bend but do not break. --Jean de La Fontaine (16211695) French poet. _Fables_ [1668] bk1, fable 22 The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. --Hugh Latimer (c.14851555) English Protestant martyr. "The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty" [19 April 1549]. I've always found it fascinating that the suicide rate of handicapped people is far less than of those not handicapped. --Michael Levine Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. --John Lyly (1554?1606) English prose stylist and playwright. _Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit_ [1579] Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_ Bk. VI, No. 19 Never stop because you are afraidyou are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. --Fridtjof Nansen (18611930) Norwegian polar explorer. He conquers who endures. --Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] (3464 A.D.) Stoic poet. Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put blame on the society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. Just like those poor neurotics at the Care Fest. There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the f*cking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. --Tom Robbins (1936 ) American author. _Still Life with Woodpecker_ [1980] When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot, and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. A swarm of gnats will overpower an elephant. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. _The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_ (story 28) [A.D. 1258] tr. Edward Rehatsek [1964] Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant (1946 ) American magazine columnist, author, and lecturer. Perseverance in a good cause is obstinacy in a bad one. --Laurence Sterne (17131768) English novelist. Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher]. They can because they think they can. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _The Aeneid_ Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it because someone else is not sure of you. --Stewart E White (18731946) American author. What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof ? I wish I knew. . . Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. --Tennessee Williams [Thomas Lanier Williams] (19111983) American dramatist. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" [1955] We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. - It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. --anon. ----- importunate im-POR-chuh-nit, adjective: Troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonably solicitous. Ex.: The play is a cacophony of importunate ringing doorbells and telephones, of pleas both professional and romantic from an exasperating assortment of colleagues and admirers. --Ben Brantley, "Present Laughter", _New York Times_ [19 November 1996] sedulous [SEJ-uh-luhs], adjective: 1. Diligent in application or pursuit; steadily industrious. 2. Characterized by or accomplished with care and perseverance.  PERSUASION . . see: "EXAMPLE" see: "INFLUENCE" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links Give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way to convince. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694-1773) British writer and politician, letter to his son I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and requirements of human nature, I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, US President [1953-1961], news conference [14 November 1956] Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. --Lebanese proverb If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861-1865] One of your best ways to persuade others is with your ears--by listening to them. --Dean Rusk (1909-1994) American politician ----- cajole kuh-JOHL, transitive: To persuade with flattery, repeated appeals, or soothing words; to coax. hortatory HOR-tuh-tor-ee, adjective: Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech." Ex.: He later gave up the ministry in the conviction that he could reach thousands with his beguiling pen and only hundreds with his hortatory voice. --Carl Van Doren, _The American Novel, 1789-1939_ inveigle in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-, transitive verb: 1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. 2. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery. proselytize PROS-uh-luh-tyz, intransitive verb: 1. To induce someone to convert to one's religious faith. 2. To induce someone to join one's institution, cause, or political party. transitive verb: To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like. Ex.: It has given the world an example of what hard work can do, but in general Japan prefers to focus on its own affairs and let other countries proselytize for democracy, capitalism, communism, or whatever else they believe in. --James Fallows, "Containing Japan," _The Atlantic_, [May 1989] suasion SWAY-zhun, noun: The act of persuading; persuasion. Ex.: Some of the earliest protests of the incipient civil rights movement demanded the removal of baseball's color line. 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