I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?
. . . next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
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.
I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was a vegetarian. It came down to one question, can you be healthy without killing animals? If the answer is 'yes' then the only reason you're killing is because you like the taste. But you can't take a life just because you like its taste.
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.
To please people is a great step towards persuading them.