Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be. — B. J. Fogg Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading. — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward,… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it.… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors,… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“...for all my regard for democracy , and my embrace of consultative management, there's a lot to be said for benevolent depotism.… — Christine Nixon Copy Share Image
Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content… — Daphne du Maurier 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
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“This doesn’t feel like I’m persuading you. As Aronson explains, you’ve been convinced by someone you already like and trust: Yourself.” — Adam M. Grant 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
When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image