quotes about Persuasion
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From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
-- Aeschylus -
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
-- Albert Camus -
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
-- Alfred NobelSource : "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
-- Aristotle -
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
-- Ayn Rand -
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
-- Billy SquierSource : Song: You Know What I Like, Album: Don't Say No
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We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
-- Christopher FrySource : Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.91, Oberon Books
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Facts and credibility only support persuasion.
-- Dan S KennedySource : Dan S. Kennedy (2011). “The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost your Sales.”, p.69, Adams Media
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My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson
-- Darynda Jones -
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
-- David Whyte -
One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.
-- Dean Rusk -
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it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...
-- Ellen Glasgow -
With plants, persuasion is better than force.
-- Elsa Bakalar -
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
-- Herman Kahn -
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Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
-- Jenny MollenSource : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.
-- Joan ArmatradingSource : Song: Love And Affection, Album: Joan Armatrading, 1976
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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
-- John Clare -
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
-- John Owen -
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
-- John OwenSource : John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.187
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The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
-- Kenneth Burke -
A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.
-- Livy -
To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
-- Mark SkousenSource : "Civilization Held Together by Persuasion, Not Force". The Religion & Liberty Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
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There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.
-- Randal MarlinSource : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.170, Broadview Press
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Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
-- Richard Mentor Johnson -
Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
-- Robert McKee -
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Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.
-- Shiv Khera -
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
-- Shiv Khera -
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
-- ThemistoclesSource : "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
-- Van MorrisonSource : Song: Glad Tidings, Album: Moondance
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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
-- Walter Cronkite -
Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
-- Will Rogers -
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Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
-- Jay Heinrichs -
Clarity (always) trumps persuasion
-- Flint McGlaughlinSource : "Guaranteeing Your Work Using Predictive Marketing with Stephen Woessner" by Drew McLellan, November 4, 2015.
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Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
-- Rudolf Hess