“Your pitch should not feel like a pitch. It should feel like the natural next step in a helpful conversation.” — Peter Holberg Copy Share Image
“The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
Life has always given me enough reasons to be negative. But I've never ceased to convince it to join me in staying… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or… — Tom Latham Copy Share Image
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off… — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Louise Bay Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command. — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
“my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of… — Andrew Hacker Copy Share Image
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.” — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
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