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Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)
There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Silence gives answers.
Before I draw people's attention to a solution, I want to make sure they are emotionally engaged with the problem. If the text answers a question, I dare not go there until everyone in the audience really wants to know the answer.
Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.
I resent being cued. It makes me not want to know.
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
persuasively, that
Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.
Demand maximum effort from people.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
It is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
question authority
The power of asking is the key to abundance living.
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.
Initiate. Complete.
Ask very little but ask of everyone.
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.
Respect authority while questioning it.
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ...
Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.
Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.
I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Persuasion" requires proof. It causes us to lead with process and facts instead of stories and knowledge. The lack of immediate relevance to participants feels like a waste of their time.
Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.
I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.
There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.
The agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]
The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing - whatever it be!
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
To heed, we must first hear.
Illuminate the opposition.
Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.
bringing attention
You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
You'll come with us," she said.
"Sure," Gavin said.
"It wasn't a request."
"Yes it was," Gavin said. "When you don't have power to compel obedience, by definition you're making a request.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.
Ask with Confidence, listen with humility.
Do, try, put into action, and be heard...
Curiosity is a call from knowledge.
Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
You have to test your ideas in a public forum.
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.
This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless,
It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve something, bearing in mind that there are other ways I could ask, and it is your job to get things done.
In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.
When you confront, you are more result oriented.
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you're timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.
One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.