Quotes About Persuasion

A woman like me is always a temptation, if possible to arrange it unobserved; as whatever we may say about it later, we will not be believed.

The ability to concoct plausible lies is a talent not to be underestimated

A faithless preacher with a good manner and voice will always convert more than a limp-handed long-faced fool, no matter how Godly.

Once they respond to my beckoning I have them forever," she said as Swan rested her tiny head in the palm of Lynne's hand.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you.

That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: How wonderful you are!! or How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them! But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.