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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. — Walter Cronkite

It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see. — A.J. Darkholme

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. — Herodotus

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

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect. — Jim Rohn

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

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare. — Ellen Page

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

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade ... — Edward Gibbon

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

[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

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering. — Jane Austen

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

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. — Edward Levi

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

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique. — Os Guinness

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

[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

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. — Robin Hobb

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. — Jenny Mollen

Heart language is logic set on fire. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. — Terence

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.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from ... Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen

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

The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You — Iris Johansen

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

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit. — John Stott

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

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton

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

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works. — John Gerzema

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

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion. — Dan Jones

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

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. — Ben Goldacre

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. — Aesop

Because, Cat, it's the feminine persuasion that's always the deadliest. — Jeaniene Frost

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

A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. — Livy

It's amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you're desperate enough. — Cat Clarke

our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline. — Tedd Tripp

My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance. — Stephanie Laurens

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. — Ayn Rand

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

Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique. — H.W. Brands

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. — Tertullian

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion. — William T. Vollmann