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Quotes About Suggestion

Water!' cried Marie. 'Vinegar!' recommended the bell-boy. 'Eu-de-Cologne!' said Bill. 'Pepper!' said Lord Tidmouth. Mary had another suggestion. 'Give her air!' So had the bell-boy. 'Slap her hands!' Lord Tidmouth went further. 'Sit on her head!' he advised.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The method which I advocate is what, I believe, the advertisers call Direct Suggestion, sir, consisting as it does of driving an idea home by constant repetition. You may have had experience of the system?" "You mean they keep on telling you that some soap or other is the best, and after a bit you come under the influence and charge round the corner and buy a cake?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
What is the problem? What is the CAUSE of the problem? What are all possible solutions to the problem? What solution do you suggest?
~ Dale Carnegie
Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.
~ Dan Brown
Vala] provides a profound analysis of man's limitations but no hint of escape from the prison - no suggestion that it is conceiving of the world as a prison that makes it a prison, that the key to the Gates of Paradise is in the mind.
~ William Blake
All I can suggest to you is, if he parentheses bug you, don't read them.
~ William Goldman
the most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
~ Henri Frdric Amiel
A novel has a whispering complexity of insinuations.
~ Henry Green
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.
~ lewis c s iii
It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.
~ Suze Orman
I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
~ Veerappa Moily
Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram.
~ Pavel Durov
I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or seeding idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery.
~ Jasper Fforde
Along with that warning comes a strong suggestion that you market directly to the unconscious mind of your prospects. There are five reasons you should do this.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
~ Lady Margaret Sackville
Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
~ Becki Newton
They got a nice peanut butter pie, too," Tubby suggested. The
~ Unknown
One day Ron Mael of Sparks casually asked Morgan what he thought of the recording we were making. Morgan gave it a thought and wisely said, 'You have to put more sound between the speakers', stretching his arms wide. Ron turned to me with a surprised expression on his face and said, 'Wow.' Morgan's suggestion made us widen the stereo soundscape of that mix.
~ Tony Visconti
Oh my God. You think you're my babysister, don't you?" He grinned and patted me on the shoulder in the most patronising way possible. "Go fly a kite," I growled, turning away. A couple of seconds later, he caught up. "I could do that," he said, like I'd made a serious suggestion.
~ Unknown
Disguise ourselves as grass?" Swordtail suggested. "Disguise ourselves as shrubs! DISGUISE OURSELVES AS ELEPHANTS THAT'S IT LET'S DO IT.
~ Tui T. Sutherland