Ralph Owen Brewster Quotes

The facts are on our side.

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

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

I need to be on the same page as the director.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'That's right.' Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'That's right.'

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

I'm here to make sense.

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

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.