Quotes About Persuasion

It is most agreeable to be a writer of fiction for several reasons–one of the most important being, of course that you can persuade people that it is really work if you look haggard enough–but perhaps the most useful thing about being a writer of fiction is that nothing is ever wasted; all experience is good for something; you tend to see everything as a potential structure of words.

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

Well, a matchmaker, as you know, can talk a wall into marrying a hole in the ground;

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Are you insane? You still not convinced that chances are better with me?

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society

Les mots provoquent des émotions et constituent pour les hommes le moyen général de s'influencer réciproquement.

la sugestión abre de golpe las puertas que para la autosugestión se abrirían lentamente por sí mismas.

There is a way to represent one's cause and in doing so to treat the audience in such a cool and condescending manner that they are bound to notice one is not doing it to please them. The principle should always be not to make concessions to those who don't have anything to give but who have everything to gain from us. We can wait until they are begging on their knees even if it takes a very long time.

Glamour could be defined as the lie you tell so well you believe it yourself, and make others believe it too.

counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

It's as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion --for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent-- took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups

El hecho consumado persuade más que todos los razonamientos; es por eso que no hay nada como la acción directa para arrancar conquistas.

Le danger n'est pas que l'âme doute s'il y a ou non du pain, mais qu'elle se persuade par un mensonge qu'elle n'a pas faim. Elle ne peut se le persuader que par un mensonge, car la réalité de sa faim n'est pas une croyance, c'est une certitude.

But, as Paul is at pains to stress, the law is good, and just, and holy.50 And we need to understand, sense, feel, and then delight in the grace of law.51 For unless we are persuaded that God has shown his grace in his law as well as in his Son, all we will hear and see at Sinai is thunder and lightning.

For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!

you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men with stubble and intense eyes. You fall under their spell and believe anything they say.