We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

Your Presentation is you Capability

Your Presentation is your Capability.

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people’s brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true.

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales,” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.