Quotes About Persuasion

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.