Quotes About Persuasion

He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons. As

Here comes the orator! With his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.

As Marguerite Derrida puts it: 'I've always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it.

I've been trying to talk Frankie into doing 'I'm A Celebrity,' because I want a holiday in Australia again! She should do it.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

Only Tanner Bolt could get away with making me, a client, fly to him, then tell me what kind of dance I'd need to do in order to give him my money.

Manipulating the manipulatable?

Power is the ability to persuade stupid people to do intelligent things and intelligent people to do stupid things. This is why power is dangerous.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.

The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness. People only need to believe for a few minutes at a time.

I, of course, replied with the golden tongue of a horse seller. Uh ... Uh ... But ...

there are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.