Convince Quote by Todd Gitlin Download Open image “To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.” — Todd Gitlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convince People Power
Real winners enjoy the benefits of power and enjoy influencing other people by dispensing resources that other people need and want. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
I don't want to win power for myself. I want to win it to give it away. — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“What is the point of having all this power if you can’t force people to do what you want?” — Ian Gregoire Copy Share Image
Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's not their fault. And then you're telling them they can't fix them by themselves. Look at your life. Your life sucks. You're a victim of these people here, you can't fix it. You need us looking… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share
Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth,… — David Byrne Copy Share
It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public… — Bernie Finkelstein Copy Share
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
