"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."

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

Robert Cialdini

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“Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.”
“To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)”

Source : Steven Heighton (2011). “Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing”, p.28, ECW Press
“Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.”
“Our growth rate continues to be staggering.”
“I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.
“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”
“I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.”
“I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.”

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