Quotes About Persuasion

Photographs cannot create a moral position, but they can reinforce one-and can help build a nascent one.

Good God, what must I do to win you?

Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Charm. The most insidious weapon in all the human armoury.

If Richard had not made friends he had certainly influenced people.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Control in this context does not mean domineering others or dominating a conversation...Your framing should enthuse and captivate the audience rather than trying to convince them of your own notions or viewpoints."

Frame control creates power and power attracts.

Since words are like the color of a painting, how you organize and use them will have an effect on the discussion as a whole, choosing your words carefully is a talent that may dramatically improve your capacity to frame any discussion"

The ability to persuade is the secret of the cosmos."

The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect..."

nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.

Men are overly sensitive to being told what to do. If they are persuaded to understand that they're making you happy by doing more, they'll be a lot more interested than if they're doing it because they're being told.

I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.

Her brother-in-law Ninian Edwards said bluntly, "She could make a bishop forget his prayers.

Like most of his countrymen, he was carried away by the sound of fine words, especially if uttered by himself.

Too often we fall into the trap of thinking that if we give employees the facts and explain why change needs to take place from an economic point of view, they'll buy into the change. We overestimate the power of logic and underestimate the power of storytelling, an appeal to belonging and the positive emotions of belonging.

You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested, "Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

It is impossible to deny a woman in a feeding mood. It is as if they look right through you, to that small, weak part that has been there since you were a baby and that doesn't know how to defy authority.