Quotes About Persuasion

If you like someone, you'll believe anything they say," Matteus said. "Think about that for a while. When you sit in your office talking to Johnny Beskow.

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.

Rhetoric uses syllogisms and other suasions to bring about a change of heart and of mind.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

Simply shovel everything that seems to support their view into the box marked 'Evidence' and say, ''See? Look at all this stuff. We must be right!'' Never mind the contradictions. Never mind the lack of independent supporting fact. Never mind the blatant absurdities.

You can't talk to a jury about the technical details of your specialty and make any sense. The jury won't know what you're talking about, and that is precisely why you were hired.

You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Falsehood easily becomes accepted truth.

As economist Tim Jackson deftly put it, we are 'persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to make impressions that won't last on people we don't care about'.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

A negotiation is an interactive communication process that may take place whenever we want something from someone else or another person wants something from us.

Gently push back, at least for one round. Cooperative people are programmed to say yes to the first reasonable proposal someone makes. To improve, you need to practice pushing back a little. A simple question that works well is: "Can you do better than that?

The more the other party needs what you can offer, the more they will feel the loss if you walk away. And the more likely they are to say yes to your terms.

Already we mistrust wakefulness; if we are dreaming, then let us dream, until our dream convinces us.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

You can't unilaterally decide to work on it." "Marx'll back me." "I bet he will." "He'll back me because it could be a great game, Sam." "He'll back you because he takes your side in everything. Because he's screwing you.

lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

You don't sell the product... You sell the customer his own self-doubt. You sell his shortcomings... You have to figure out what he's missing in himself and you wrap that up in a bow and sell it to him... Works like a charm.

Words had to complete the work of the guns.