Quotes About Persuasion

Our songs and our stories do more than persuade others that an order exists: they build the house; they weave a world; they companion our listeners into the experience of such ordered cosmos. —WALTER WANGERIN JR

Only way to be safe is to let me protect you. You can be part of my family. You can be with your parents again, and we'll all become rich together. How does that sound?" Monster sniffed. "It sounds like a join-the-Dark-Side speech.

Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

my parents are very good at bribery.

Åžimdi benden de güce ya da kendi karar?m? verme hakk?na sahip olmas?z?n yaln?zca bir öpücük veya tatl? bir f?s?lt?yla seviÅŸip, kad?nlarla erkeklerin yatak odalar?nda yapt?klar? diÄŸer tüm ÅŸeyleri yaparak ikna gücümü kullanmam m? isteniyordu? Maalesef bunu düÅŸünmek bile midemi buland?r?yordu. (syf. 50)

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

I find that the hardest work in the world—it may in fact be impossible—is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar.

No existía ninguna atmósfera mejor que la del dinero para entrar en razones.

Never get angry," the Don had instructed. "Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Ta s? Ä'Æ°a cho h?n má»™t l?i ?? ngh? mà h?n không th? t? ch?i.

The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

It was an early example of the power of persuasion and unstinting belief that Mercury would apply to himself and his band mates in Queen. Nothing was impossible, he maintained, if you put your mind to it.