“Persuasion is effective even when the subject recognizes the technique. Everyone knows that stores list prices at $9.99 because $10.00 sounds like… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I think it doesn't actually matter what your political persuasion is, but if you are interested in the country that you live… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of… — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day… — Susan Donovan Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A great lawyer listens first, speaks second, and always thinks strategically." "Effective lawyering is less about winning arguments and more about crafting… — Vorng Panha Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking… — Douglas Arnold Hyde Copy Share Image
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I… — William Laud Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture,… — Joan Of Arc Copy Share Image
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Stories are one of the most powerful forces of persuasion available to us, especially stories that fit in with our view of… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A worried person sees the problem in every thing and a concerned person solves the problem. Worry is the worst enemy of… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“ 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
