(81 quotes found)
“Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.”
William Bernbach
“It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands”
Andre Gide
“The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion”
Everett Dirksen
“I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission.”
Caspar Weinberger
“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.”
Henry David Thoreau
“One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.”
William Wordsworth
“Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“It sounds great from an institutional standpoint. Maybe the Court could do a better job of persuasion. But it won't come overnight. If Roberts leads by example and writes clearly and talks to his colleagues, it may happen.”
Edward Lazarus
“You could make a very strong and persuasive argument that Katherine Harris is responsible for George Bush being the president of the United States. That argument being made, it would seem to me her IOU list would be infinitely long.”
Tom Slade
