Quotes About Persuasion

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude.

God acts toward his people, as much as possible, but since he is a God of persuasion rather than coercion, God also allows his people to act on him and to thereby condition the form his self-revelation takes, as much as this is necessary to remain in solidarity with, and to continue to work through, his fallen and culturally conditioned people.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.

With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill the tooth, but it didn't. I wanted it done because I was doing a lot of television with food and I saw myself eating with these horrible crooked teeth.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.