Quotes About Persuasion

Selling is persuading and influencing people to take action.

So, selling is influencing and persuading others to take action in a relationship that is grounded in trust and respect.

We sell ideas and solutions to people, and people sell our products and services to themselves.

The experimental subjects found it much easier to argue against positions they disliked than in favor of those they supported. There was a special power in doubt. Doubt

the diagram "is to affect thro' the Eyes what we may fail to convey to the brains of the public through their word-proof eyes.

You have to understand that Bothans think in terms of political and persuasive influence, not military power. The typical Bothan's goal is to go through life getting more and more people to listen to what he has to say.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

people don't want doctrine, they don't want tracts, and they don't want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)

Cuanto más se esforzaba la gente de color por convencerlos de lo buenos que eran, de lo inteligentes y cariñosos, de lo humanos que eran, cuanto más se esforzaban los negros en persuadir a los blancos de algo que a sus ojos estaba fuera de toda duda, más profunda e intrincada crecía la selva en su interior.

Lebanese, like chain smokers and heavy drinkers, are always trying to thrust their vice on others.

Since anti-Communists ran the gamut from Trotskyists to neo-Fascists, critics of the USSR frequently found themselves sharing a platform or a petition with someone whose politics in other respects they abhorred. Such unholy alliances were a prime target for Soviet polemic and it was sometimes difficult to persuade liberal critics of Communism to voice their opinions in public for fear of being tarred with the brush of reaction.

The idea that those in authority know best—that they are engaged in social engineering on behalf of people who do not understand what is good for them—was not born in 1945, but it flourished in the decades that followed.

we have smuggled in a misleadingly 'ethical' vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears—by listening to them. —DEAN RUSK

Influencers use four tactics to help people love what they hate: 1. Allow for choice. 2. Create direct experiences. 3. Tell meaningful stories. 4. Make it a game.

People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.

Social engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.

Cea mai buna cale de a manipula oamenii este sa le spui ce vor sa auda.

You can't reason someone out of a notion that they didn't reason themselves into.

Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too. Wikipedia works so well because it removes an error in a single click, making it easier to eliminate a falsehood than to post a falsehood in the first place.