Quotes About Persuasion

The strategy of gaining entry is not unlike seduction: if you ask for permission, you've lost before you've begun.

Every self-respecting persuasive ploy must first appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse.

Corazon caliente, mente fria. EL codigo del seductor

Nulla è difficile da credere come la verità e, al contrario, niente è più seducente della forza della menzogna quanto maggiore è il suo peso.

It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club.

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

You convinced them, I tell her. No, you did or I'd never have gotten your signal. They wanted to be convinced.

I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can't make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can't seem to make them see the truth.

How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?' 'But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous weapon.' 'Everything is dangerous in the wrong hands. How do I convince him that we're not a threat?

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Make love, he suggested. Make love with me. I'm not in the right mood for love. Let me try to persuade you.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

We realize our messages are influential.

It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.