Persuading Quotes

Persuading Quote of the day

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.