Quotes About Persuasion

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

YouTube has a hundred engineers who are trying to get the perfect next video to play automatically. And their techniques are only going to get more and more perfect over time, and we will have to resist the perfect.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

With a rowdy audience, the trick is not to go louder and try to beat them into submission. It's to go quieter. As they get loud, you get soft. Then they lean in towards you to listen.

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.

People understand that Trump is a born leader.

Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.

There are some Senate candidates who aren't sure Trump is in their interest yet, but they'll come along.

I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself.

Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.