I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character,… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise… — John Key Copy Share Image
A man does not recover from such a passion, from such a woman, he ought not, he does not. — Captain Wentworth 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
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes 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
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
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — Plato Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the… — Barack Obama 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