Quotes About Persuasion

Why do you write? Because I want to persuade everybody to agree with me about everything, for their own good.

She was a bitch. They're all bitches. I'm telling you, they asked me to do it. They begged me.

Persuading them to join is not the problem, but separating the wheat from the chaff is harder.

the ability to sell, which is usually nothing more than a talent for hype and keeping a straight face as you demand a fifty times markup from potential buyers who wouldn't know a Damien Hirst from a pickled sardine.

When others agree to our requests, we're changing the future.

The devil made me do it!

No conviction makes so lasting an impression on the mind as that which it works out for itself.

To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse.

Vous croyez que vous avez votre libre arbitre, mais un jour ou l'autre, vous allez reconnaître mon produit dans le rayonnage d'un supermarché, et vous l'achèterez, comme ça, juste pour goûter, croyez-moi, je connais mon boulot.

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." —ROMAN DE RENARD

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Choose a lie that others wish to believe" was written beneath it. "They will cling to it, even if it is proven false before their face. If anyone tries to show them the Truth, they will turn on them and fight them tooth and nail.

She knew that if you wanted somebody to believe something, there was no point forcing it down their throat. Far better to give them a hint, a glimpse, a taste, then snatch it away from them. The faster you ran, the more they would give chase, and the more likely to believe the hard-won information when they caught it.

The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own.

I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" [Romans 10:17 KJV].

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.