Quotes About Convincing

A salesperson who is an able showman can change the prospective buyer's mind from negative to positive.

however, that motive usually must be placed by you in the mind of the prospective buyer.

A master salesperson has the ability to influence people through the printed page as well as by the spoken word.

they can cherry-pick from statements they've made in the past, many of them contradictory, and end up convincing themselves of their intellectual lucidity

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job, which gave me a considerable advantage over the teachers.

And convincing someone that an outrageous ritual has caused them to forget the constitutional bedrock of their society is hard.

'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.

I had to convince the investor that Scotland and Montana look completely alike. He couldnt believe it. But they actually do. I defy anybody to tell when were in Montana and when were in Scotland.

Selling is persuading and influencing people to take action.

As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4

To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

It is as though the way to create a child's acceptance of animals' deaths is by convincing him or her that sometimes humans must be killed too. "Just" wars justify meat eating.

Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

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

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

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

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

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