I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
“it’s just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it’s quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. — Junius Copy Share Image
We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg… — Andrew Wommack Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and… — B. J. Fogg Copy Share Image
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people.… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
That's a really sad moment. When people in a democracy are afraid of having the conversation, because it might actually lead to… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too,… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
“Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop. — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“When have I, when have I ever forced anyone to do anything, he starts to say: but Richard cuts in, "No, you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image