A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.
When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical;. . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .
Persuasion is not a science but an art
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.
Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.