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Arouse Quotes

To arouse something in another person, whether interest, feeling, or conscience, takes a certain skill. These quotes look at that skill from several angles: an artist weighing honesty against restraint, a protester hoping to stir a community's sense of justice, and a performer learning exactly how much is needed to hold an audience's attention without losing it.

Great communication depends on the ability to arouse Attention and hold it long enough for meaning to land.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Quotes by Ronald Knox

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Quotes by Robert Evans

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can...

Quotes by Ragnar Frisch

Attention Quotes

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.

Quotes by Preston Manning

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the...

Martin Luther King Jr.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Quotes by Kenneth Clark

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.

Quotes by James Fenton

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Quotes by Jacques Ellul

Best Quotes

Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation which tends to arouse less irritation than other taxes.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped...

Quotes by J. Michael Bishop

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Quotes by Italo Calvino

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall...

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Quotes by Hu Shih

Business Quotes

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

Quotes by Herta Muller

Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the...

Quotes by Giordano Bruno

There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have...

Quotes by Feisal Abdul Rauf

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

Quotes by Elia Kazan

Character Quotes

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these arouse quotes say about art and emotion?
One quote argues that even abstract nude art should stir some vestige of erotic feeling in the viewer, suggesting that failing to arouse any response signals weak art or false morality.
How does one quote connect arousing conscience to civil disobedience?
It describes someone knowingly breaking an unjust law and accepting imprisonment specifically to arouse the conscience of the wider community about the injustice at hand.
What does the sermon-and-skirt comparison mean?
It compares a good sermon to a woman's skirt: brief enough to hold attention yet still long enough to cover what actually matters, a memorable way of describing balanced communication.
How does timing relate to arousing interest in performance?
One quote notes that in song, as in dramatic verse, meaning must yield itself quickly enough to arouse attention and interest in real time, or the audience is lost.
Where can I read more about holding an audience's attention?
Explore the Attention quotes collection for more on capturing and keeping interest.

Continue exploring related ideas in Character quotes, or see how craft and interest connect in Best quotes.