Quotes About Convincing

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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ten, kto wychodzi ze sporu zwyci?zc?, do?? cz?sto zawdzi?cza to nie tyle prawid?owo?ci s?du przy obronie swej tezy, ile sztuce i zr?czno?ci, z jak? to wykonywa?

You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

If you think it is hard to get humans to follow traffic laws, imagine convincing an asteroid to move along an ellipse.

Sus ojos están clavados en los míos. Ojos amables. Parece que entiende lo difícil que soy de convencer. Siento cómo su mano se cierra sobre la mía. Nunca he necesitado tanto el tacto humano.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

It's like trying to convince someone to go on a lengthy, expensive European vacation when you yourself have never left the country.

Hank must have been convincing, because Mudd and Syron didn't resist.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

He could talk a ravenous dog off the back end of a meat wagon.

Mr. Nobley: "Then I must stay?" Miss Erstwhile: "Unless you want to risk me accusing you of ungentleman-like behavior at dinner, yes, I think you should stay. If I spend too much time alone today, I'm in real danger of doing a convincing impersonation of the madwoman in the attic." Mr. Nobley: He raised an eyebrow. "And how would that be different from-" Miss Esrtwhile: "Sit down Mr. Nobely", she said.

the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. It was a pretty convincing

Indifference is exactly what cynical politicians want from you. They're counting on it. Their success depends on convincing you that your vote doesn't matter.

Physical pleasure was such a convincing illusion, and sex, the ultimate charade of safety.

If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.

it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.

four out of 69,406 authors of peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature rejected the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming, and that "the peer-reviewed literature contains no convincing evidence against [the hypothesis].

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.