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__ mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

Words have power.

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier _ it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. _ Henry Cabot Lodge

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree