I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.” — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever 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
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power… — John Stumpf Copy Share Image
“Persuasion is effective even when the subject recognizes the technique. Everyone knows that stores list prices at $9.99 because $10.00 sounds like… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“People’s initial exposure to your message will mold their perception for the remainder of your message. In order to maximize your persuasion,… — Nick Kolenda Copy Share Image
Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be an advocate? In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause,… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and… — William Bernbach 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
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Old-school marketing is based on persuasion; new marketing is based on invitation.” — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
“that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love and attraction is all about feelings... You cannot use logic to persuade yourself into relationship... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. — Livy Copy Share Image
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
