#persuade

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#create #fashion #front #go #huge

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

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#persuaded #something #you

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#job #laws #line #people #persuade

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#built #enthusiastic #first #had #him

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

#baseball #change #i #i remember #ideas

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#books #call #children #clue #containing

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#beg #deal #effort #friends #get

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#good #men #own #persuade #takes