Quotes About Persuasion

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force," Jefferson wrote in an 1824 letter, "the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

In the first case the object works like a magnet upon the tendencies of the subject; it determines the subject to a large extent and even alienates him from himself.

and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result

All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense.

Sizin zaman?n?z ve dikkatiniz üzerinden kâr elde eden ?irketler, ustaca kulland?klar? bir pazarlama hilesi sayesinde bugün herkesi ?una inand?rm?? vaziyetteler: Sosyal medyada yer almad???n?zda mutlaka bir ?eyleri kaç?r?r, bir ?eylerden mahrum kal?rs?n?z.

tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it.

Wu, bir konu?mas?nda Day'den ?öyle bahsediyordu: 'Etraf?na bir kalabal?k topla ama onun paras?yla ilgilenme, çünkü bu kalabal???, onun dikkatini isteyen birine yeniden satabilirsin' fikrini gerçekten hayata geçiren ilk insand?.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late.

Nos comunicamos con la intención de influir, de enseñar, persuadir y convencer.

Three words, Sang Ly, three simple words that communicate more, mean more, than worldly riches. Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms. Even Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.' Do you understand?

Words, Sang Ly, are not only powerful, they are more valuable than gold.

desperate people can make themselves believe anything!

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

Ask yourself, "Why does this person need to convince me?" The answer turns out is not about him, it's about you. The reason someone promises something, the reason he needs to convince you is that he can see that you're not convinced, you have doubt, which is a messenger of intuition, likely because there is reason to doubt.

Don't think of persuasion as something someone does to us; persuasion is an internal process, not an external one. We persuade ourselves. A predator merely manipulates how things seem to us.

Charm is almost always a directed instrument, which, like rapport-building, has motive.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so?

I've seriously got to stop turning my girlfriends gay, but like I can really help it. It's my animal appeal.