There is only one way ... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie, 1888 - 1955
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Good quote... You can actually make someone do something without him or her wanting to do it, but the end result would be pathetic.
This quote, if I am not mistaken, is a wonderful rebuttal to Daniel Dennett's version of "free will" (oversimplified--"if it feels like free will, it is").