Quotes About Persuasion

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Again, to speak out for what is true and right requires more than just railing against evil. The call is for rational, cogent, well-crafted presentations of positive alternatives gleaned from Scriptures.

Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

There is a saying in sales: Facts tell, but stories sell. This is easy to remember because it rhymes, but it's not entirely true. Stories don't necessarily sell. What they do is connect.

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Words are what drives the world. Don't ever forget that, boy. People want words, and the less they understand them, the more effective they are.

What a bad god is yours, white man, that you can make me worship him only by force and not by persuasion!

Sometimes you get more ants with honey, but you should always pack a can of Raid.

How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him." She smiled brilliantly and said, "Hank, I agree with everything you've said. You are the most perspicacious individual I've met in years, you are six feet five, and may I light your cigarette? How's that?

We can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome.

It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.

Just because some people saw the handwriting on the wall didn't mean they could get anyone else to read it too.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right

Good style, clear argument, but you're not saying anything.

Nobody's easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

In negotiations, persuasion is paramount. So the way you package your message is as important as the message itself.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.