Persuade Quotes

344 quotes by 293 authors

The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure â€” and so often, people are unsure â€” is that breaking up… — Adam Thirlwell
You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in… — Rajneesh
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the… — Edward Bernays
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. — Edward Bernays
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't… — Charles Baudelaire
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives… — David Ogilvy
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society… — Harry Browne
That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to… — Andrew Solomon
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction… — Daniel J. Boorstin
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that… — Donna J. Haraway
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. — Leo Szilard
The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe… — Graham Joyce
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong. — James Wolfensohn
In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the… — Kate Millett
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. — William Matthews
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to… — David Frum
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put… — Branch Rickey
I canâ€™t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me, — Lawrence Block
Presidential power is the power to persuade. — Richard Neustadt

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