Sunday, August 7, 2016 – To Be Credible
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. ~ Edward R. Murrow
The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. ~ Neil Postman
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth, come only from the senses. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario. ~ Jean Baudrillard
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. ~ Richard Cobden
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ’til noon. ~ Mark Twain
I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one. ~ Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~ Thomas Paine
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made – so faithful is the public. ~ Arnold Bennett
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers. ~ Bill Keller
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honor by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance. ~ Samuel Johnson
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln. Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854
The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I’m 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren’t killing people then it’s bad for the mortality business. And if you can’t trust somebody to die, then you can’t trust somebody. But I’m somebody you can trust. I’m at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. ~ Jarod Kintz
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ~ Isaac Asimov
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Credibility is someone else’s idea of what I should be doing. ~ Paul Stanley
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. ~ John C. Maxwell
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible, and no one can now doubt the word of America. ~ George W. Bush
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. ~ John F. Kennedy
What I’ve learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country’s credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. ~ Timothy Noah
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. ~ Robert McNamara
The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy. ~ Paul Krugman
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ~ Samuel Johnson
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company. ~ Hannah Arendt
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. ~ Leonard Mlodinow
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain
I am different from George Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t. ~ Mark Twain
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ~ Oscar Wilde
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. ~ Scott Adams
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ~ John le Carre
Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin. ~ Jack White
You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain. ~ Jefferson Smith
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. ~ J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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