Quotes About Persuasion

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Listen to him long enough," Judith said, "and he can make you believe the polar cap is made of vanilla ice cream.

The electorate collaborated in its own disenfranchisement. In the public's view, all politicians were corrupt, all civil servants inept, and every government little more than a Mafia plus an army. Once the public had been persuaded to cut the state down to size, the real Mafias took over.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

This Lady Pauline," he began, "she must be a fearful person. She sounds like a terrible sorceress." His face was deadpan, but Will sensed the underlying amusement and replied in kind. "She's very slim and beautiful. But she has amazing power. Some time ago, she persuaded Halt to have a haircut for their wedding." Malcolm, who had noticed Halt's decidedly slapdash hair styling, raised his eyebrows. "A sorceress indeed.

What is this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger, or a knight of the realm, "he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.

What is this?' he asked. 'Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?' It was the last three words that made Will smile. 'We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger or a knight of the realm,' he said. 'But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

What is this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger or a knight of the realm," he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

Women tug their men toward the world the TV lays before them, in the belief that it exists.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

Applications of NLP

Rapport-Based Selling and No Need for Conflict!

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drink without he will.

A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.

La ventaja de ser abogado en lugar de, pongamos por caso, psicoanalista es que los abogados trabajan en un mundo desprovisto de certeza. Vivimos en el mundo de la persuasión.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.