Quotes About Persuasion

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

The famous Canadian physician William Osler once wrote, "In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men

Não falamos diretamente à sua humanidade, mas a seu egoísmo, e nunca falamos com eles a respeito das nossas necessidades, mas das vantagens que eles terão. Ninguém, a não ser um mendigo, prefere depender da bondade de seus concidadãos.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

An idea develops its validity simply because everybody seems to believe it, despite the absence of hard facts.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Advocacy means persuading people who matter to care about your issue. It is about getting listened to, being at the table when decisions are made, being heard by people who make decisions. It is about facing and overcoming resistance. It is about speaking and writing in compelling ways that make decision makers want to adopt your ideas.

we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

MARK but this flea

I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

Words matter, words have import.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda.