Quotes About Persuasion

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and "plays back" the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.

Your subconscious mind does not have the ability to argue or dispute what it is told. If you give it wrong information, it will accept it as true. It will then work to make that information correct. It will bring your suggestions, even those that were false, to pass as conditions, experiences, and events.

Well, you have one problem I don't have. You're such powerful teachers that if you even breathe what you believe, it would influence everybody. I don't have that problem. I've always been glad I could get some­ body to pay attention to my ideas, just to share them with them. I don't have to worry about being so over­ powering that everybody will take everything I say for granted.

Because no matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas have the power to change the world.

Los dibujos animados y los anuncios de las hamburgueserías hablan a los niños con una voz tan seductora, que los padres no pueden competir con ella.

know what the prophecy says because he translated it for Mum, repeated it a dozen times over trying to persuade her, because he didn't know Mum well enough to understand that the one thing she'll never go for is the lesser evil.

Health makes good propaganda.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

As she put it more wearily in a later interview in New Woman, Advertisers don't believe in female opinion makers. Steinem believes that it's the advertisers who've got to change. And she believes they will, though perhaps not in her lifetime.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

faith is a state of mind, and that it may be induced by self-suggestion.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false.

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

Lo logro por medio de un truco muy inteligente. Hago que los padres enseñen a sus hijos a creer como ellos (los padres) en la religión, la política, el matrimonio y otras materias importantes. De esa manera, como ves, cuando obtengo el control de la mente de una persona, puedo perpetuarlo fácilmente haciendo que ella me ayude a fijarlo en la mente de su descendencia. ST: ¿De qué otras formas

the vibrations of enthusiastic thought that he or she releases will be picked up by the prospective buyer and acted upon as if it were the buyer's own enthusiasm.

Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.

Every supersalesperson knows that every sale is first made to himself or herself Your fear only exists in your mind. You are only a loser if you think you are. How much you convince yourself determines how much you can convince your buyer.

When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.

Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own belief, and if he does so he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Nobody can really be convinced of something he or she doesn't need to believe in through some biological imperative.

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.

Quelle erano le parole che voleva sentirsi dire, e alla fine cedette alla tentazione di crederci.