Quotes About Persuasion

There's a lot of psychology involved in my work, a lot of mind play going on when you try and convince someone to feel good about their bodies and have the confidence to walk down a catwalk naked when, initially at least, it's probably the last thing they'd plan to do.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman.

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to an extent.

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be at the forefront of change.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

The way I see it, before I can sell an audience Frank Sr, I have to sell them Frank Jr first.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.

She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon—well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting.

I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet. Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more years in me before I pass on, Granny told him. So feel free to take your time.

Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.

A lie often told enough will eventually be accepted as truth. - Acsah