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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
— Walter Cronkite
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln
— Harold Holzer
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
— Tony Campolo
I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
— Diana Peterfreund
I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job
— Charles Bukowski
Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.
— Nicholas Boothman
Like acting, sales works best when hidden.
— Peter Thiel
You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
— Neil Gaiman
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
— Stephen L. Carter
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
— Laurence Olivier
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
— Nicholas Boothman
Perlstein says a movement gives you a chance, to make anger boiling inside you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering.
— Rick Perlstein
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.
— Ronald Reagan
A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
— Jack Canfield
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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
— Vincent De Paul
Persuasion is not a science but an art
— William Bernbach
Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
— Lisa Kleypas
When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.
— A.J. Darkholme
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
— James Altucher
Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.
— Stephen Denning
We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
— Harold Holzer
Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.
— Jane Austen
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
— Richard Dawkins
Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
— Billy Squier
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.
— H.W. Brands
I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.
— Joan Armatrading
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
— Harry Allen Overstreet
With plants, persuasion is better than force.
— Elsa Bakalar
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
— Rick Perlstein
Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.
— Noah Webster
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[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
— George Washington
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
— Robert A. Caro
but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.
— John Williams
Heart language is logic set on fire.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
— Aristotle.
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Everyone is selling something, if you can't see what people are selling, maybe you're the cart.
— Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
— Geraldine Brooks
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
— William Safire
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
— John Owen
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
— Jeffrey Toobin
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
— William Bernbach
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
— Rudolf Hess
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.
— Marshall Sylver
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...
— Ellen Glasgow
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer
Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.
— Jane Austen
The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The
— Timothy Ferriss
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.
— Jane Austen
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
— Jay Heinrichs
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
— William Shakespeare
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
— Clive Barker
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
— John Calvin
My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.
— Stephanie Laurens
If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex
— Glenn Hefley
Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.
— Brennan Manning
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
— Lord Chesterfield
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
— Jacob M. Appel
Advertising is the art of persuasion.
— William Bernbach
In other words, logic enables you to say something besides "because I said so" or "or else I will hit you" as a means of persuasion. The
— Laurie Endicott Thomas
Political persuasion emerges at the intersection of the mental and the corporal. Traveling
— David Eagleman
In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
— Stephen L. Carter
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
— Alfred Nobel
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
