Quotes About Persuasion

what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product

The facts were out; it was now a question of who would believe them.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me. You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane. I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word.

He's no stranger to pretty words.

How can I possibly resist you when you say such pretty words?

Flattery will get you everywhere

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then.

I mean, how can you say no to an offer like that? Like this, Jesse said tonelessly. No.

I told them I wasn't crying. I told them my eyes were watering from all the marker fumes. And they seem to believe me. Too bad the only person I didn't seem able to fool anymore was myself.

Even I didn't think she sounded very convincing, and I am very easily convinced by almost anything. For instance, in convocations where we are forced to listen to the debate team, I almost always agree with whichever team is talking at the moment, no matter what they're saying.

I am very good at groveling.

Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true.

You are Eddis. Go smack him! Eddis shook her head. Smacking people will not persuade them.

And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first." ? Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

Answers are terribly seductive. The simpler they are, the more seductive they become.

Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not.

Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running off to pack your bags.

Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone.

One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home.

The work of a financial analyst falls somewhere in the middle between that of a mathematician and of an orator.

If you roll the dice often enough you always get the numbers you want. If I tell you the sun will shine tomorrow and that it will rain and there will be snow and that clouds will cover the sky and that wind will blow and that it will be a calm day and that thunder will deafen us, then one of those things will turn out to be true and you'll forget the rest because you want to believe that I really can tell the future.

A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.