Quotes about Persuasion
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- John Owen
how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.
- John Wooden
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
- Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
- Cicero
Whoever tells the best story wins.
- John Quincy Adams
Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun.
- Ray Comfort
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
- Mark Twain
And this our God, so Scripture says, rejoices over us when we are persuaded that He is not incensed at us but is our kind and lovable Friend.
- Martin Luther
He is—and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent—a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.
- Michael Wolff
Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.
- Michael Wolff
Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.
- Mike Huckabee
Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.
- NT Wright