If you want to persuade someone, I observed, questions can be more powerful than statements.

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She especially likes to persuade someone to try a favorite wine of hers.

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To me selling is really the telling of a story with the intent to persuade someone to do something.

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First you need to drum up support for the idea, then you need to persuade someone to fund a proper study.

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"Ultimately the French may have to revise their own timetable for withdrawal unless they somehow persuade someone else to pick up the slack, which is unlikely, " said J.

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If we want to persuade someone or get them to accept new evidence, we need to set the stage by appealing to emotion first, facts and logic second.

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In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

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Events at the IMF may well empower such a strategy if the new leader turns out to be someone who can persuade others, including the laity, and impart a sense of total personal commitment to the job.

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For the subcomandante, though, it would certainly help to have someone to blame if his mission to persuade Congress fails.

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