I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
Diana PeterfreundTags: love true-love jane-austen persuasion compass
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane AustenTags: jane-austen persuasion captain-wentworth
Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."
("It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.")
Tags: words power ideas influence argument rhetoric persuasion
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.
Max BarryTags: power openness argument persuasion argumentation
Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people’s brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.
Max BarryTags: words persuasion persuade hustling hustler
All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
Ramsey IslerTags: writing stories persuasion
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.
The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small
Tags: poverty persuasion compulsion andrians athenians
It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.
Cat ClarkeTags: lies yourself persuasion
It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.
China MiévilleTags: persuasion social-anthropology
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
Neil deGrasse TysonTags: persuasion arguments degrees credentials job-titles
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