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We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. – Alan Watts	added by JokerGem 3 months ago
People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
A great way to persuade people is by making them feel like they're missing out, because people are much more likely to participate in something if they feel like they're the only ones not doing it. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
Create a sense of obligation. When you want to persuade someone to do something, one of the best ways you can accomplish this task is to make that person feel obligated to you. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. – Charles Baudelaire	added by Normando 10 months ago
The ability to persuade is the secret of the cosmos.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
When you persuade yourself that you “get to” do something rather than “have to,” you can find a silver lining. For instance, saying “I have to clean the house” implies cleaning is an unpleasant task. On the other hand, saying “I get to clean the house” reframes the labor as something you look forward to, emphasizing how important it is to have a place to live in the first place. A great strategy to change your perspective and enhance your mental health is to reframe the tasks you encounter in daily life with a positive outlook.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and techniques may have changed over time, but the fundamental ideas behind frame control have mostly remained the same.” – Josh King Madrid	added by JoshKingMadrid 1 year ago
But the point is that United Nations plays an important role as a catalyst in other ways, if the report is strong, it greatly helps the Uyghur campaigns in various places around the world, it should spur at least some key governments to take a stronger stand, and it would ideally persuade the Chinese that they need to further ameliorate their policies. – Philip Alston	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If someone can persuade him this is somehow good for him and bad for his enemies, he'll do it, he doesn't have the lawyers to help him sort through these things strategically and is really thinking through them on his own. – Ty Cobb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And they are not going to be! no, I’m not going to give it to myself for a 75th birthday present. [The grandchildren] will try to persuade me, but nothing’s going to pierce my ears. – Duchess of Cornwall	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As far as the other stuff, the traffic stop, calling for backup, being polite to Patrick Lyoya, trying to persuade Patrick Lyoya to cooperate, chasing Patrick Lyoya, tackling Patrick Lyoya, none of those things will be perceived as violation of Grand Rapids policy. – Lewis Langham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There will be, I think, substantial evidence that really demonstrates the coordination and the planning and the effort, despite the fact that they understood that Donald Trump lost the election and even once the insurrection began and the violence began, there were ongoing efforts to persuade the former President to stop the violence and call on folks to go home, and Donald Trump refused to do it. – David Cicilline	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Deterrence is a key here, as Xi looks at what's happening in Ukraine, [ United States's asking, ]' Is it worth it ?' And we have to persuade United States that it's not. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you politicize things and start to say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and unvaccinated people are crowding sick patients out of hospital beds, you don't persuade unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. That much is pretty clear, but you do deepen the divisions and the hard feelings and the skepticism about what the public health authorities are advising people to do. – Doug Badger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The gun lobby has for years been trying to persuade you that an important part of your security is having a firearm in your home, but the data doesn't really support that idea, the data shows that having a gun in your home actually makes you more at risk of being a victim of gun violence than it protects you. – Adam Winkler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I thought it was a good speech, now, in this particular case, dealing with my friend and brother Joe, if he was trying to get votes, it was not the vote-getting speech … I'm a minister. Either you get up, and you try to persuade people of their sins and appeal to their better angels. But when they come to church, and they still have the jug of whiskey up under the pew, you say, you’re going to hell. I think he gave a ‘you’re going to hell’ speech. – Al Sharpton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Emerald Packaging makes life so much easier, i just talked to employees and said,' I'm not going to try to persuade you anymore.'. – Tyler Enders	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The question is what happens when a celebrity is trying to persuade on a wedge issue, on something that people are so divided on that they're not going to change their minds, on issues like gun control and abortion ? I think that we're having a moment like that. – Mark Harvey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The immediate goal is to try to persuade people … that western-style republicanism – which was supported by United States – is a failure, and that the PRC's policy of Belt and Road Initiative, and the new international order that it wants to create, is superior to what United States tried to create after 20 years in Afghanistan. – Eric Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is an effort to use China’s influence to persuade the Taliban not to seek a military victory but to negotiate seriously for an inclusive political settlement. – Li Ran/Xinhua via AP	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. – Theodore Dalrymple	added by Normando 2 years ago
I’m hopeful that a strong vote can persuade the White House that there’s a better approach to that issue so you’re not punishing the troops for something that is totally unrelated. – Mac Thornberry	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You are asked by the state, and in exchange it takes care of you and provides you with financial prosperity, it is a delicate game. They won’t force you but will persuade you, convince and give recommendations. – Denis Volkov	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

– Alan Watts

added by JokerGem
3 months ago

People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

A great way to persuade people is by making them feel like they're missing out, because people are much more likely to participate in something if they feel like they're the only ones not doing it.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

Create a sense of obligation. When you want to persuade someone to do something, one of the best ways you can accomplish this task is to make that person feel obligated to you.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by Normando
10 months ago

The ability to persuade is the secret of the cosmos.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

When you persuade yourself that you “get to” do something rather than “have to,” you can find a silver lining. For instance, saying “I have to clean the house” implies cleaning is an unpleasant task. On the other hand, saying “I get to clean the house” reframes the labor as something you look forward to, emphasizing how important it is to have a place to live in the first place. A great strategy to change your perspective and enhance your mental health is to reframe the tasks you encounter in daily life with a positive outlook.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and techniques may have changed over time, but the fundamental ideas behind frame control have mostly remained the same.”

– Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

But the point is that United Nations plays an important role as a catalyst in other ways, if the report is strong, it greatly helps the Uyghur campaigns in various places around the world, it should spur at least some key governments to take a stronger stand, and it would ideally persuade the Chinese that they need to further ameliorate their policies.

– Philip Alston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If someone can persuade him this is somehow good for him and bad for his enemies, he'll do it, he doesn't have the lawyers to help him sort through these things strategically and is really thinking through them on his own.

– Ty Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And they are not going to be! no, I’m not going to give it to myself for a 75th birthday present. [The grandchildren] will try to persuade me, but nothing’s going to pierce my ears.

– Duchess of Cornwall

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As far as the other stuff, the traffic stop, calling for backup, being polite to Patrick Lyoya, trying to persuade Patrick Lyoya to cooperate, chasing Patrick Lyoya, tackling Patrick Lyoya, none of those things will be perceived as violation of Grand Rapids policy.

– Lewis Langham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will be, I think, substantial evidence that really demonstrates the coordination and the planning and the effort, despite the fact that they understood that Donald Trump lost the election and even once the insurrection began and the violence began, there were ongoing efforts to persuade the former President to stop the violence and call on folks to go home, and Donald Trump refused to do it.

– David Cicilline

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Deterrence is a key here, as Xi looks at what's happening in Ukraine, [ United States's asking, ]' Is it worth it ?' And we have to persuade United States that it's not.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you politicize things and start to say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and unvaccinated people are crowding sick patients out of hospital beds, you don't persuade unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. That much is pretty clear, but you do deepen the divisions and the hard feelings and the skepticism about what the public health authorities are advising people to do.

– Doug Badger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The gun lobby has for years been trying to persuade you that an important part of your security is having a firearm in your home, but the data doesn't really support that idea, the data shows that having a gun in your home actually makes you more at risk of being a victim of gun violence than it protects you.

– Adam Winkler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I thought it was a good speech, now, in this particular case, dealing with my friend and brother Joe, if he was trying to get votes, it was not the vote-getting speech … I'm a minister. Either you get up, and you try to persuade people of their sins and appeal to their better angels. But when they come to church, and they still have the jug of whiskey up under the pew, you say, you’re going to hell. I think he gave a ‘you’re going to hell’ speech.

– Al Sharpton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Emerald Packaging makes life so much easier, i just talked to employees and said,' I'm not going to try to persuade you anymore.'.

– Tyler Enders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The question is what happens when a celebrity is trying to persuade on a wedge issue, on something that people are so divided on that they're not going to change their minds, on issues like gun control and abortion ? I think that we're having a moment like that.

– Mark Harvey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The immediate goal is to try to persuade people … that western-style republicanism – which was supported by United States – is a failure, and that the PRC's policy of Belt and Road Initiative, and the new international order that it wants to create, is superior to what United States tried to create after 20 years in Afghanistan.

– Eric Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is an effort to use China’s influence to persuade the Taliban not to seek a military victory but to negotiate seriously for an inclusive political settlement.

– Li Ran/Xinhua via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

– Theodore Dalrymple

added by Normando
2 years ago

I’m hopeful that a strong vote can persuade the White House that there’s a better approach to that issue so you’re not punishing the troops for something that is totally unrelated.

– Mac Thornberry

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You are asked by the state, and in exchange it takes care of you and provides you with financial prosperity, it is a delicate game. They won’t force you but will persuade you, convince and give recommendations.

– Denis Volkov

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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