Persuading Quotes - Page 4

• I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

  Justin Timberlake

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Justin Timberlake On Music, Comedy And Wearing Out His NPR T-Shirt". "Monkey See" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 29, 2011.

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• Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mean, Three

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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  Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
  American political elite from the beginning.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Genius

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Struggle, Boys

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Art, Lying, Believe

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Years, Age, Battle

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Axes, Space, People

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 8, 1987.

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• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  Aristotle

  Law, Style, Purpose

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• ...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

  Arthur Ransome

  Book, Reading, Rivers

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

  George William Curtis

  Progress, Minorities, Steps

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• The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.

  Edward John Carnell

  Heart, Demand, Doubters

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• We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

  Andrew Wommack

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

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• Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Merit, Doe

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• It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

  Edwin Land

  Intellectual, Might

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
  it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
  are positive rather than negative.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Effort, Negative, Action

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2013). “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics”, p.151, Springer Science & Business Media

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• In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

  Mark Skousen

  Freedom, Children, Rights

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Reading, School

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• Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

  Tertullian

  Inspirational, Teaching, Doe

  Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Queens, Men, Slave

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Clever, Fall, Humility

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• A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
  art of persuading.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Perfection, Definitions

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.506

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• It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

  Alex Carey

  Long, Achievement, Propaganda

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, Mind, Vanishing

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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