Quotes of: Persuading Keyword

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Nelson Mandela

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

Tony Snow

My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

Sissy Spacek

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

Charles R. Swindoll

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Wim Wenders

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

Ahmed Chalabi

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Ahmed Chalabi

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Helen Vendler

Only a perfect rose, has the power to persuade a perusal of its petals

Interludes Of The Heart

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

John C. Maxwell

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Ertharin Cousin

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Branch Rickey

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.

Louis Pasteur

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Virginia Postrel

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.

Chellie Pingree

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Marilynne Robinson

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

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.

Ambrose Bierce