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Quotes About Persuasive

Emulate drug dealers. Make your product so good, so addictive, so "can't miss" that giving customers a small, free taste makes them come back with cash in hand.
~ Jason Fried
Not all standards are equally persuasive, of course. Some will seem more directly on point, more widely accepted, or more immediately relevant in terms of time, place, or circumstance.
~ Douglas Stone
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
~ Steven Berkoff
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
the exuberant are easily engaged. And exuberance is, in its very effusiveness, liable to misconstruction and suspicion, often misinterpreted as sexual interest when none is intended, or as implying a more sustained emotional commitment than is warranted by the high spirits that, however persuasive, may prove to be transient or directed in any number of places.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
~ Robert Harris
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
~ Richelle Mead
Some guys can charm the stitches off a baseball.
~ Robert Crais
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
~ Dennis Prager
How have you been? You're still as beautiful as ever." "As are you, my dear. I love your shoes." "Aren't they delightful? I saw them and just had to have them. Their previous owner wasn't too keen to let them go, but I can be very persuasive when I want to be." "Is that her blood on the left one?" "And no amount of scrubbing will get it out, either.
~ Derek Landy
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Tienen un don —facilidad de palabra, a menudo— que los distingue de la muchedumbre. Expresan una visión.
~ Robert Greene
So we need to be subtle—congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious.
~ Robert Greene
When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.
~ Laura Kipnis
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.
~ Alain de Botton
The moral? That life can be a stranger substance than a cliche life, that goldfinches should occasionally do things differently from their parents, and that there are persuasive reasons for calling a loved one Plouplou, Missou, or poor little wolf.
~ Alain de Botton
The moral? That life can be a stranger substance than cliché life, that goldfinches should occasionally do things differently from their parents, and that there are persuasive reasons for calling a loved one Plouplou, Missou, or poor little wolf.
~ Alain de Botton
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
~ Herman Kahn
Admittedly, the Conservatives are generally more persuasive orators than their Labour counterparts, perhaps a skill developed by spending school holidays trying to lure father out from behind his Daily Telegraph.
~ Frankie Boyle
The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams.
~ Roger Scruton
William was a natural salesman who easily charmed people.
~ Ron Chernow
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers