Quotes About Persuasion

I agree with you. Now let's put on our big-girl panties and go convince Mr. Always Right that he's seriously wrong.

Come on, Barbie. Please. Do it for your favorite cupcake.

But you have to admit I wasn't in my right mind. You had just ridden the intelligence right out of me.

When you and your daughter pass a teenager with a ring in her nose and purple hair and you say, "What an idiot," your daughter knows what you're doing, even if you'd deny it to yourself. You're sending out a message that she'd better not even dream of piercing her body or dyeing her hair. She knows you're trying to persuade her, and she may react by resolving not to be persuaded.

Your sales pitch should present the goal and build to the interesting complication. They'll buy that.

The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

Men run with great avidity to give their evidence in favour of what flatters their passions and national prejudices,' David Hume told Edward Gibbon.

I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Every communication is rhetorical because it uses some technique to affect the beliefs, actions, or emotions of an audience.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen and come up that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."

If the clouds split open and an archangel descended onto the street in all of his heavenly glory and tried to make Rogan see reason, he would fail miserably and have to pack up his flaming sword and go back to Heaven in shame.

It's funny how you use logic in an argument and think it will persuade me.

In my experience, Connor acted as if the word no meant nothing unless he was the one saying it.

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason.

How much are you willing to pay?" she asked. "Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous—some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount." Apparently, he understood sarcasm just fine.

Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears. I would tell you every night and every morning." He

My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all that has been done, to propose first the preliminary question, "Whether such a thing as metaphysics be at all possible?

I believe in you so much that you must do what I want.