Quote by Monica Wood Download Open image ““Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.”” — Monica Wood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.” — David Salle Copy Share Image
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Most people will give you the means to persuade them if you watch and listen carefully.” — Stuart Diamond Copy Share Image
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“Maybe he, like Mum, believed God had delivered three extra children, one-two-three, as a sign of His plan for this couple's long, long friendship.… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.” — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“In they went, over the footbridges to mills flourishing on Chisholm land. “To the Rumford Falls Paper Company, which made—?” “Newsprint!” “And the Rumford… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God's own brutal hand,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
