A Quote by Malcolm Forbes

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Malcolm Forbes

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Malcolm Forbes
American - Publisher
August 19, 1919 - February 24, 1990

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Lucian Freud

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

Ray Bradbury

I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.

Ginni Rometty

When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.

Gary Zukav

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

Nalini Singh

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

Daniel Dennett

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

Jeffrey Eugenides

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

Edward Bond

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

Edward Bond

The simplest, most impactful question that you can ask an athlete, or ask anyone, is 'What do you want to accomplish? What's your goal?'

P.K. Subban

I don't go out of my way to be a smack talker, you can ask me about anyone and I'll give you my honest opinion.

Matt Serra

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.

Jennifer Crusie

Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.