Persuading Quotations

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places.

Unless the settlement activity stops, there is little hope of persuading the Palestinians that the Israelis mean business when they talk of peace.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Persuading the people to let you win -- that's exactly what they've lost,

Persuading George Davies to stay is quite a coup for Stuart Rose.

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I think that my job is more to set direction, define objectives and develop strategies for reaching them, ... One takes account of the various constituencies in both shaping that agenda and persuading people about it, but if the primary goal were just balancing off the different interests of people, that would make the job pretty uninteresting.

I think the administration lowered the bar a bit too far. And if the deal is implemented as it currently stands, in my view there will be some negative implications for our global non-proliferation efforts. I think we'll have a harder time persuading other countries to tighten the rules while we're urging them to make exceptions.

I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.

Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.

There has to be a lot of persuading to get a large number of institutional holders to back their slate. He's relying in part on his reputation to get people to back him; they haven't done much to back him so far.

We think they have already lit a fire under management to a degree, persuading it to take several positive actions. We expect it to continue on this course. So the Icahn group may lose the battle but, if the stock goes up, it will have won the war.

We need to simplify the process for small employers. We also need to build demand among employees by persuading them to consider retirement planning a priority.

At a time of economic uncertainty and weaker recruitment, persuading employers to hire more people from the benefit roll could prove an uphill task.

They are watching very carefully what's going on in Congress and I think they are prepared to encourage the right kind of program ... as it comes out of Congress. He understands he's going to have a big role to play in persuading the public that whatever the answer is, it isn't an amnesty.

It's not about conquering, it's about convincing, persuading about our concrete proposals with transparency and honesty.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

The Marketing of Evil' takes no prisoners. David Kupelian brilliantly explains how a clever, radical elite is persuading Americans to accept evil as good, and good as evil. With precise clarity, the book blows the lid off the most successful ? and dangerous ? cultural scams. In addition, Kupelian's personal vignettes and vigorous writing hold the reader's interest throughout.

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.