Quotes of: Persuading Keyword

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Edward Burtynsky

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.

Brian Spellman

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Helen Clark

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

Holliday Grainger

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

James Wolfensohn

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

Adam Hughes

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

Bo Bennett

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

L. Neil Smith

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Evidence, Decision and Causality

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

The Book of Illusions

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he ...

Robert McFarlane

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

Indiscretion

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.

The Rape of Lucrece

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Northanger Abbey

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

De l'art de persuader

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

The Second Sex

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Orestes