Persuade Quotes - page 9

2762. In Matters of Slander, thou oughtest to suspend thy Judgment, and examine the Thing; and not, as the common Custom is, persuade thyself, that common Report is sufficient warrant for the Truth of the Matters. Popular Opinion is the greatest Lie in the World. (Thomas Fuller (writer))
My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. View quote
Alan Lewis
I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it. View quote
Alexander Siddig
Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants. View quote
Andrew Dominik
Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. View quote
Bill Whittle
I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. View quote
Emily Mortimer
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me. View quote
Ian Frazier
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions. View quote
John Holdren
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. View quote
Ertharin Cousin
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. View quote
Mary Wesley
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. (Maximillian Degenerez)
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game. View quote
Peter Guber
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do. View quote
Roger Angell
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support. View quote
Wendie Malick
People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd. View quote
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. View quote
Germaine Greer
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. View quote
Donald Sutherland
I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset. View quote
Salma Hayek
Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
An orator whose purpose is to persuade men must speak the things they wish to hear; an orator, whose purpose is to move men, must also avoid disturbing the emotional effect by any obtrusion of intellectual antagonism; but an author whose purpose is to instruct men, who appeals to the intellect, must be careless of their opinions, and think only of truth. (George Henry Lewes)
It is necessary to have regard to the person whom we wish to persuade, of whom we must know the mind and the heart. View quote
Blaise Pascal
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
One of my favorite quotes is from Hemingway, who said, "Never persuade yourself that war, no matter how necessary, is not a crime." ... It is. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's always awful, and that's my point. View quote
Paul Fussell
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli