Quotes About Convincing

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

questions can outperform statements in persuading others.

We're persuading, convincing, and influencing others to give up something they've got in exchange for what we've got.

salespeople adept at improvising "can generate ideas, incorporate changes quickly and easily, and communicate effectively and convincingly during sales presentations."5

But all of you are likely spending more time than you realize selling in a broader sense—pitching colleagues, persuading funders, cajoling kids. Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Unlike most of us, who tend to be transparent, people rarely see through a psychopath," she continued. "He's masterful. People trust and believe him. Even like him. It's his great skill. Convincing people that his point of view is legitimate and right, often when all the evidence points in the other direction. Like Iago. It's a kind of magic.

People were capable of believing almost anything. And hope was even more sweeping and powerful.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

That woman can sell water to a drowning man.

She'll be OK,' I say to the man behind me. 'You sure?' he asks, and I hear him take another step back. It's always easy to convince people it's OK because if it isn't, they'd have to get involved. 'Yeah.

He is president because he convinced enough voters in the right states that he was a teller of blunt truths, a masterful negotiator, and an effective champion of American interests. That he is none of those things should put us on edge, but there is a larger cause for unease.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Alguna vez has convencido a un arbol de que se haga de noche para dejar paso a los pajaros?

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.