Quotes About Persuasion

Not just because analogies make arguments, but because they often trigger emotions that override the circuits of reason, and sometimes at a subconscious level.

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.

But when people are used to believing a thing is such-and-such a way, and the preachers want them to believe that that's the way it is; it's trouble you get, not thanks, for upsetting their ideas.

What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myself as a fairly wide-gulleted type.

Jim Bradley shook his head. Cathy didn't want to admit it, but he had the unmistakable look of someone who was in the right.

The person who is easiest to brainwash is the person whose beliefs are based on slogans that have never been seriously challenged.

Also, to build a million-member church, the pastor must have the evangelistic power of Billy Graham, the expositional ability of Charles Spurgeon, the apologetic answers of Josh McDowell, the teaching focus of John MacArthur, the organizing skills of Bill Bright, and the persuasive ability of Ronald Reagan.

Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle. It is the sizzle that sells the steak and not the cow, although the cow is, of course, mighty important.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Can a mere song change people's minds? I doubt that it is so, but a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

You shouldn't persuade anyone to love, like and appreciate you. For, there is a tendency he or she will devalue you.

He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician's invention.

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He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one.

Where does happiness begin? When we have persuaded ourselves that there is no truth. All salvation comes thenceforth, even salvation through nothing. He who does not believe in the impossibility of truth, or does not rejoice in it, has only one road to salvation, which he will, however, never find.

No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.