#persuasion

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart. ↗

— Nicholas Boothman

#persuasion #public-speaking #business

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing. ↗

— Rick Perlstein

#persuasion #communication

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#chaos #cooperation #organization #persuasion #pets

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

— William Bernbach

#art #fundamentally #happens #persuasion #science

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. ↗

— Edward Levi

#builds #changing #claim #ends

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. ↗

— Themistocles

#gods #i #me #persuasion #two

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#civilized society #force #over #persuasion #sign

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#enforcing #observances #other #our #persuasion

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true. ↗

— Diana Peterfreund

#jane-austen #love #persuasion #true-love #love

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. ↗

— Jane Austen

#independence #interference #judgment #persuasion #self-determination