Persuasion Quotes · Page 5

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

— Natalie Merchant

“He was going to suck my blood!” “Which is what we do to anyone when we say we’ll be hurt if they…

— Richard Bach

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing…

— Anonymous

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

— Jay Heinrichs

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

— Walter Cronkite

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

— Jenny Mollen

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

— Roy H. Williams

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character,…

— Santiago Calatrava

I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot…

— Patrick Süskind

There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ...…

— William Bernbach

I think it doesn't actually matter what your political persuasion is, but if you are interested in the country that you live…

— Karren Brady

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them…

— Blaise Pascal

Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of…

— Raymond Rubicam

I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people…

— Susan Jacoby

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through…

— ZZ Packer

Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The…

— Thomas Sowell

“The art of reasoned persuasion is an iterative, recursive heuristic, meaning that we must go back and forth between the facts and…

— Joel P. Trachtman

Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than…

— Ashley Montagu

Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side…

— Henry Giroux

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.…

— Leo Tolstoy

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

— Ayn Rand

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

— Ben Goldacre

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

— Christopher Fry

“A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.”

— Jane Austen

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

— John Gerzema

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

— Cecile Richards

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit… To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of…

— Jane Austen

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

— David Wooster

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

— Eric Hoffer

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

— John Ruskin

“I am a firm believer in the ‘Power of Persuasion.’ Insomuch as, whatever you believe are your limitations, will become your limitation.”

— Tonny K. Brown

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things…

— John Milton

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

— Dominic Cummings

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A player will tell you anything to get you, but they won't do anything to keep you.

— Sonya Parker