Persuasion Quotes

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.

~ Robert A. Caro

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

~ Rick Perlstein

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

~ C. Terry Warner

The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

~ Rick Perlstein

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

~ Alexandra Robbins

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

~ Thomas Paine

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

~ Jane Austen

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

~ William Osler

All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

~ Daniel H. Pink

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406

~ Hilary Mantel

The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained. It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship, that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.

~ Daniel H. Pink

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

~ William Bernbach

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

~ Alfred Nobel

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

~ Aristotle

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

~ Karl Rove