I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an OPINION, I'm very STUBBORN, and I want to persuade everyone to my POINT of view.

A SCIENTIST's AIM in a DISCUSSION with his COLLEAGUES is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to WEAR any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like MINE INSTEAD of this AWFUL, boring blue denim.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling SALESMAN, GOING all over in an attempt to persuade people to SPEND twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

But when someone is on a winning HORSE, and everything LOOKS wonderful, it's very HARD as an outsider to persuade them something is WRONG.

I learned from my dog LONG before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with PERSONALITIES. What the chimps did was help me to persuade OTHERS.

We shouldn't persuade PEOPLE that we can SIMPLY conjure up the SUN and the MOON: at the most, we can DELIVER a telescope.

I've had experience in MANAGEMENT and TV and HOPE to be ABLE to lend some of that to TNA and MAYBE persuade some wrestlers to come in this DIRECTION because of the influence I've had on their careers in the past.

We NEED to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our DEMOCRATIC allies. When we BELIEVE that international action is necessary, whether military, ECONOMIC, or diplomatic, we will try to persuade our friends that we are right. But we, in return, MUST also be willing to be persuaded by them.

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of MONEY, but ACTUALLY only GOVERNMENT can use FORCE.

It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with INEQUALITY, to TELL them inequality is not IMPORTANT and that markets are ALWAYS efficient. They'd think you're crazy.

The MAIN problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to GO ALONG, which is a lot of work and usually not SUCCESSFUL.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the PLANET TODAY MIGHT be a SHORTAGE of books by me.

I think the real PROBLEM is it's easy to persuade YOUNG kids of PARTICULAR kinds of ideas, because they are FLEXIBLE.