"By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking."

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Source : Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

Robert Cialdini

#Trying Quotes #Attention Quotes #Causes Quotes

“The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.”
“If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.”
“Barack Obama is an economic patriot.”

Source : "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell", www.today.com. September 27, 2012.
“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.”
“Books belong to their readers.”
“The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.”
“Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.”
“German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!”

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