Quotes About Persuasion

Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Knowing how to speak to people with the right words at the right time, that's immensely powerful.

I had to talk for a long time to explain to the producer why I wasn't right for 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies.' I also had to explain why I didn't want to do 'My Living Doll' before Robert Cummings was considered for the role.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

I'm good at sales. I enjoy it.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

I believe I can carry the message of conservatism in a way that doesn't seem so abrasive - that has better packaging, I would say, better messaging.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

People rationalize buying decisions based on facts, but they make buying decisions based on feelings.

Donald Crowhurst had an extraordinary talent for making people believe him. His power lay in the fact that he had completely convinced himself.

Cuanto más sencilla era la explicación, más fácil resultaba creerla. —El

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

Hell, rationality itself—the exalted Human ability to reason—hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will.

Advertising tries to knock out your critical thinking by definition. Every tasteless anti-abortion poster, every unfailing-cute child suffering from bowel disease in the local bus shelter, every cartoon bear doing unnatural things with toilet paper is an attempt to rewire your synapses, to literally change your mind.