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Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.
I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.
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.
One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey.
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.
I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
I'm delighted to be joining City. It didn't take much persuasion from Mark Hughes; they are heading in the direction I want to go. There is great potential here.
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.