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Your words have power. Find words that unite. Find words that unify.
Frank Luntz
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Frank Luntz
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 23
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The adjectives that are in the book [Win] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.
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Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.
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The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.
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Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.
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I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
Frank Luntz
You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.
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The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity they don't create any incentives they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.
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What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.
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It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.
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It's not what you say, it's what people hear.
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Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible.
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Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
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Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem it's time to find the solution.
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The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.
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Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.
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I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
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I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
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Politics is gut commercials are gut.
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Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
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Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.
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