Quotes About Persuasion

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

It's in the hands of activists to expand the universal concept of human rights to include homosexuals. Once they persuade the people, the politicians will follow.

Actually my brother didn't think Imran was religious enough for me. I had to persuade him.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.