Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to…

“Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.”

— Thomas Harris

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed…

— David Frum

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,…

— Paul Rand

“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I…

— Stefan Zweig

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

— H. W. Brands

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

— Dean Rusk

“Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.”

— Monica Wood

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.

— George Saunders

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster…

— Anne Morice

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

— Ilona Andrews

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how…

— Robert Fripp

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting…

— Peter Mullan