Quotes About Persuasion

Hank must have been convincing, because Mudd and Syron didn't resist.

In retrospect I wonder whether I should have insisted earlier and more vigorously on persuading Congress to accept capital injections.

But I knew that we would need to do more to get our message across.

instead. But Obama had made up his mind and pressed Tim to accept, which he eventually did.

I knew it was a hard sell, but I wanted the idea to remain under consideration.

and by using the media and lobbying on Capitol Hill, she persuaded (mostly Democratic) legislators to endorse her plan

since Hank would be the one persuading Congress to act, his views deserved some deference.

I would have said, "Why do you have to use victims to illustrate your point? Why can't you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you're proposing is the right solution for America?

Let The Other Side Have Meaningless Victories. This is a parlor trick you can use to great effect with your leftist friends. Leftists prize faux moderation above all else; by granting them a point or two, you can convince them that you aren't a radical right-winger at all.

There is no way to convince someone that you don't hate him or her. You can convince him or her, however, that your opposition is a liar and a hater. When

The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. . . . .The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away."13

That person already disagrees with you, and they're not going to be convinced by your words of wisdom and your sparkling rhetorical flourishes. The goal will be to destroy the leftist in as public a way as is humanly possible.

Why can't you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you're proposing is the right solution for America?

if you repeat something enough, it becomes true.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

If you wish to win a man"s heart, allow him to confute you.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.

I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.

How convenient does it prove to be a rational animal, that knows how to find or invent a plausible pretext for whatever it has an inclination to do!