Marco Brambilla

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

Italian Artist

Richard Lamm

Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.

American Politician

Lois Lowry

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

American Writer

Roxane Gay

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

American Author

Emily Watson

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

English Actress

Azzedine Alaia

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Tunisian Designer

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

British Writer

Jean Giraudoux

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

French Dramatist

Paul Cezanne

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

French Artist

Seductive often implies a subtle form of persuasion that is hard to resist.

Persuasion Tool

While seductive can imply sexual attraction, it often just means generally tempting.

Not Always Sexual

Sometimes, seductive describes something that appeals to the emotions, not logic.

Emotional Impact

Seductive implies an almost magnetic attraction that can be irresistible.

Magnetic Attraction

Can refer to non-physical qualities, like thoughts or ideas, not just physical beauty.

Non-Physical Charm

Something seductive can also suggest that it might lead to risk or temptation.

Hidden Risks

 and scratch their heads and stare at it, and take pictures of it and take pictures next to it, and all of that was really exciting to me and I wanted to do every stop sign pole in the neighborhood. And the more that I did, the stronger the reaction. So at this point I'm smitten. I'm hooked. This was all seductive. I found my new passion

How yarn bombing grew...

 times the difficulty in influence or in negotiation or persuasion is when you feel the inability to walk away as long as you maintain the ability that you can step back out of the situation you stay in control as soon as you become so invested or locked into an idea that you find seductive then that means that

Apollo Robbins on...

 And if he got that right, he would try and answer the question for the person too. And the act spread like wildfire. It's a testament, I think, to the seductive appeal of some powerful figure offering you easy, simple answers to life's complex and subtle questions

Mentalism, mind reading...

 The other thing is that power is incredibly seductive, and you must have two real qualities, I think, when you come to the table, when you're dealing with power, talking about power, because of its seductive capacity. You've got to have skepticism and humility.

Heather Brooke: My...

 It's hard because we often can't fathom how the other side came to their positions. It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion

I grew up in the...

 me too. And so I'll leave you with this thought. If we're going to find our way back to each other, vulnerability is going to be that path. And I know it's seductive to stand outside the arena, because I think I did it my whole life, and think to myself,

Listening to shame PIPE...

 And this information is all that much more seductive, all that much easier to take at face value and pass on, when it's authentic. Who's not interested in the truth that's presented in phone calls and emails

How (and why) Russia...

 if we're going to find our way back to each other vulnerability is going to be that path and I know it's seductive to stand outside the arena because I think I did it my whole life and thank to myself I'm

Listening to shame -...

 a simple, powerful, and seductively believable story that was as wrong as Kanner's theory that autism was rare. If the CDC's current estimate,

Steve Silberman: The...

 He taps a seductive rhythm to tempt her out. She replies.