Bart Millard Quotes

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

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

I don't like dragging people.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Compulsion destroys cooperation.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.