Quotes About Persuasion

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

You won't listen to reason at all, will you? No. My mind is my own.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Therefore, the person who is unable to write letters and notes never becomes a dangerous seducer.

There is life or death in words.

You can't make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

When people ask me about the definition of a copywriter, I say, "If I become a good copywriter, I will have the ability to bring nonliving people to life.

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

Thus Belial with words cloth'd in reason's garbCounsel'd ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,Not peace.

But all was false and hollow; through his tongueDropp'd manna, and could make the worse appearThe better reason.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary

Our evangelistic task is not to persuade people that the gospel was made for their felt needs, but that they were made for the soul-satisfying glory of God in the gospel.

subtle yet powerful role of analogy in persuasion. Because while they often operate unnoticed, analogies aren't accidents, they're arguments—arguments that, like icebergs, conceal most of their mass and power beneath the surface. In many arguments, whoever has the best analogy wins.