- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elicit Quotes
On drawing out a response: quotes built around the word elicit.
These quotes use elicit to describe drawing something out of others, whether that is feeling from an audience or support from the public. See related lines on the Feeling quotes page.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole concept of ECW was that the biggest star of the promotion was the promotion itself. It didn't matter if a persona was designed to elicit cheers or boos. It didn't matter if someone was an antagonist or protagonist. The whole concept was to fight for the honor of the cause. The cause was ECW itself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that the horror genre and the comedy genre are close cousins because they are the two genres where you are attempting to elicit an involuntary vocal response from a crowd of people and you instantly know whether it's working or not.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.
- Detain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020