Jill Scott Quotes

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

To advise is not to compel.

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

You can't make people respond.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.