Quotes About Persuasion

Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the belt he had been shown.Then he traveled around the kingdom to persuade each tribe to allow its talisman to be added to it.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

El ensayo es un teatro de la inteligencia donde una mente organizada y lúcida utiliza recursos pedagógicos para hacer reflexionar al lector común y llevarlo de la mano hasta una conclusión que perdería poder persuasivo si fuera presentada de manera abrupta.

Non bisogna far violenza sulla natura ma persuaderla.

Among those who said they had heard something about it, 60 percent said they had completely believed it and 8 percent said that they had believed it in part. Among the rest, 14 percent said they had not believed it at first, and 18 percent said that they had not believed it at all.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

Salesman: 'This one is better, but you can't afford it.' Housewife: 'That's the one I'll take.

It's like trying to convince someone to go on a lengthy, expensive European vacation when you yourself have never left the country.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Everyone who ever heard him seems to have agreed that the exceeding excellence of Wilberforce's speaking ability was less in what he said than in how he said it.

Excuse me, young elven princess, but have you heard the word of your lord and savior, Diablo, today?

Statistically, half of all humans are below median intelligence and easily led astray by the ten percent who combine above average intelligence with a defective sense of ethics.

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

It takes two to make a lie: one to tell it and the other to believe it.

wouldn't be convinced not matter what

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

I've already told the police what happened, but they don't believe me. Why would you?' he said. 'Because we're the people that believe people that other people don't believe,' I said. 'How can I know that?' he asked. 'You're just going to have to believe me,' I said.

It's like hypnotism,' I told Warwick, after the two had been dispatched off to drink more coffee. But Warwick wasn't buying. 'Hypnotism doesn't work like that,' she said. 'And that's the way it's not like hypnotism,' I said.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause is actually at work on his own conversion, unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.