Quotes About Persuasion

Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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and the force of public opinion, tiny though the public here may be, is a thing so violent violence is not needed to carry it.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

When I completed my course work, it was my final opinion that you can never really get anyone to do anything they don't want to do unless you use force. I decided that in most of the world, "force" is called advertising

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough. It will simply go to work to carry out its new directives. Your subconscious mind will receive the new direction, create a new, more successful picture of you in your control center, and, over time, will convince you to put the cigarette out, put down the fork instead of eating that extra dessert

The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.

We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programed to do. The brain simply believes what you tell it the most. And what you tell it about you it will create. It has no choice.

Repetition is a convincing argument.

The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do, if you tell it often enough and strongly enough!

Fark?nda m?s?n?z leydim bilmiyorum ama benimle pazarl?k ettiniz, bana emir verdiniz, beni ikna etmeye çal??t?n?z. Her türlü yolu denediniz, sadece bir yol kald?." "NeymiÅŸ o?" "Lütfen demek.

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

One of the gentleman guests chuckled. "Do you think the mother made up the story out of whole cloth?

If we say he was a dictator, then we will have to admit that we were duped.

What power a girl can have over a boy, to make him write such things! And what power a boy can have over a girl, to make her believe he has seen her fate. We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

But I was about to make him see God…

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.