We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my… — Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
When gifted with the power of persuasion, be it a blessing upon those you persuade! — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion. — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion. — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“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