"What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A guy goes to a shopping mall in France. And he tries to get women's phone numbers as they pass various shops, so he could call for a date. But in neither of those cases was he very successful. He only got a number 13 percent of the time. But there was one kind of shop that doubled his success rate when women were passing it, a flower shop. Why? Because flowers put women in the mind-set of romance."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Robert Cialdini

#Flower Quotes #Successful Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.”
“I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.”
“Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.”

Source : "Janet Montgomery Talks SALEM, How Much Fun She Has with Her Role, Why the Witch Trials Are Still Fascinating, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 15, 2014.
“A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.”
“Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.”
“Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.”
“I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.”
“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.”

Source : Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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