Quotes About Persuasion

It is amazing what people will obey, if a clear and confident voice is used

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

words are much stronger than I am.

True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.

It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.

While it's true we can't make others change, we can invite them to change.

Wir müssen verführerisch sein, sonst sind wir gar nichts.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

One of the most important keys to getting through to anyone and then influencing them is to realize that inside everyone's mind, they listen to someone or something.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.

It was the first time he'd persuaded a girl into bed by mentioning the possibility of fleas.

Adjectives are not arguments.

Let's get something straight, MacKeltar. I am not going home with you. I am not going to bed with you, and I am not wasting one more moment arguing with you." "I promise not to mock you when you change your mind, lass.

Brutality is the refuge of the dull of mind, ka-lyrra . Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce. ~Adam Black to Gabrielle O'Callaghan

Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce.

He may not have yet seduced her into his bed, but he'd succeeded in seducing her into his life in countless other ways, each an invisible, silken knot, binding her to him as he lured her deeper into his world.

Why do they always ask for words? Why do they ever believe them?

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing.

Pour yourself a cockytale - a delicious blend of persuasive happy facts and/or marvelous memories - prepared just for you.

Margaret Darlington had the kind of power that made sane people do insane things.