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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.


William Bernbach

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Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
WILLIAM BERNBACH The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
RICHARD DAWKINS The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourse...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
TERENCE Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion
TERENCE Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuas...
ARISTOTLE Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, "I just might try it," we are at the nexus of c...
ANDREW HACKER Persuasion is better than force.
PROVERB Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Neoconservative Persuasion
IRVING KRISTOL A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I...
NICK HANAUER You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
BEN GOLDACRE The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
AESOP The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontent...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontent...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.
OS GUINNESS A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do ...
ANDRE GIDE "For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destru...
JANET FRAME The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed ...
JOSHUA RENOLDS The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandis...
ERIC HOFFER Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the...
JOAN OF ARC There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
DENNIS PRAGER The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
DEAN RUSK Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building.
KOFI ANNAN It is not safe to be in Baghdad, it is patently unsafe and that's true for whatever political persua...
DAVID ENDERS It sounds great from an institutional standpoint. Maybe the Court could do a better job of persuasio...
EDWARD LAZARUS Non posso più ascoltare tacendo. Devo parlarvi con i mezzi che ho a disposizione. Voi mi trafiggete...
JANE AUSTEN We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasa...
OSCAR WILDE Tell me what to do to change your mind.
LISA DESROCHERS At the end of reasons comes persuasion
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication cours...
GEORGE LOIS Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.
SHIV KHERA Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
ARISTOTLE Young children are uniquely vulnerable to commercial persuasion.
DALE KUNKEL You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which i...
CARLO MICHELSTAEDTER Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
THEMISTOCLES Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction...
HERMAN KAHN Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
COLLEY CIBBER I only have the power of persuasion,
DONALD TRUMP I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
DAVID WOOSTER I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Adv...
GEORGE LOIS The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
MARK SKOUSEN We kept trying to follow up. We used moral persuasion, but the commission wasn't interested.
ED HARRINGTON No matter your political persuasion, it's still an honor and a thrill to spend time with a President...
MARTY BRENNAMAN A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBEL People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,
WESLEY CLARK It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
JENNY MOLLEN No conflict no story
ANTONIO NUñEZ LOPEZ [Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapon...
DEAN RUSK It will take a lot of persuasion ... that's why I am not promising a miracle at all. We should be pr...
NUR MISUARI REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasi...
AMBROSE BIERCE Not at all, ... I've been a Democrat all my life, and I've been a contributor to candidates of Democ...
BERNARD SCHWARTZ To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We believe you can achieve much more through persuasion and by encouraging China to open up to the o...
TONY BLAIR I see the position (of first selectman) as one of gentile persuasion, and to provide guidance,
MALCOLM BROWN Jobs has said nary a word on behalf of important social issues, reserving his talents of persuasion ...
LEANDER KAHNEY You all know if this happened at Central and the young lady was from another school or another 'pers...
TOLOUPE OMOKAIYE Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? / This persuasion cometh not ...
BIBLE Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a chall...
WALTER ISAACSON To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be cred...
EDWARD R. MURROW People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...
BLAISE PASCAL Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO!

Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GE...
NATSUKI TAKAYA He reads books of all stripes and persuasion, and he decided to read it.
TRENT DUFFY The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...
MAX BARRY The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
ZIG ZIGLAR To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
AYN RAND A firm persuasion of the superintendence of Providence over all our concerns is absolutely necessary...
WILLIAM COWPER Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should ha...
MARK TWAIN He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.
DAN JONES One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion
EVERETT DIRKSEN The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
EVERETT DIRKSEN Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtu...
THOMAS SOWELL Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtu...
THOMAS SOWELL True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul
KUNAL JAJAL Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a ...
ARISTOTLE Wearing a cloak is on Rose's list of the thousand things she hates most. The problem is that each of...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo...
LISA KLEYPAS A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
JOHN WAYNE Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposin...
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue
JOHN RUSKIN We see this a lot in social psychology, the idea of social influence and persuasion -- the whole ide...
TERRY PETTIJOHN JR Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. ...
JANE AUSTEN To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction ...
JANE AUSTEN Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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