Quotes About Persuasion

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

The president is entitled to try to persuade Congress and the American people to pursue whatever policies he thinks are needed. But he is not entitled to shut down the government when he fails to persuade us.

When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

A mistake I've made is investing in my idea rather than the entrepreneur's. Sometimes I'm excited about an idea that is similar to the entrepreneur's idea - but not the same. A smart entrepreneur will convince me it is the same, until I write a check!

There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it's about what someone else wants you to say.

Anything perceived as nagging will be counterproductive and better left unsaid. Praying that his eyes be opened to the truth and his heart convicted will be far more effective than you telling him what to do. You can encourage him to do what's right and pray for him to do what's right, but ultimately it's God's voice that will have the greatest impact.

if they were Bible salesmen.

You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right.

You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.

The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.

El secreto de una buena mentira es no dar demasiadas explicaciones y aportar un buen detalle.

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

Not that kind of proof, Kyber. Come on, Buck Rogers got a ride in a flying car, and all I get is a slide show and a history lesson? It's going to take more than this to convince me that I slept for almost two centuries.

In a curious way, it was her fearfulness that persuaded me that I must retain control of myself, rather as a mother will feel obliged to put a brave face on things in order to calm her frightened child.

His lower jaw dropped. "You don't believe me?" She rolled her eyes at the strange metallic ceiling. "Can a politician talk?" "Excuse me?" "Can a gun shoot?" "If it's loaded with a projectile. " She

That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.

Zane isn't for me," she said firmly. Maya laughed. "That sounds really good, but I can't help wondering who you're trying to convince.

Hard position when you don't want to be a dictator but you want your own way," Eleanor wrote Hick.

Art is seduction, not rape.