Quotes About Persuasion

When you don't come on strong, they're more likely to listen to what you have to say.

First, when directing your people, use persuasion, not coercion.5 Instead of making pronouncements, make requests. Offer suggestions and ideas. Don't dictate and demand; instead, advocate and recommend.

There are a lot of nice tings about being rich, but one of the best is that you can say almost anything, and if you do it with confidence, without blinking, people put a lot of effort into believing you

Details convince; they persuade us that the writer has looked closely at the world, and they bring us close to the world the writer is creating.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have.

Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

The psychologist has come to see that nothing is achieved by telling, persuading, admonishing, giving good advice.

Of course, that a sentence is utterly fallacious has never prevented it from being believed by large numbers of people and, on occasion, used as a foundational principle for a comprehensive philosophy of life.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Has Solan addled your brain?

Persuasion lives not in him who does not live from his own self, who is son and father, slave and master of what lies around him, of what came before, of what must come after—a thing among things. Persuaded is he who has his life within himself, a soul naked amongst the islands of the blessed (Gorgias). But men look for 'life,' and lose 'life' (St. Matthew).

Testimonials are enough to convince people for now —Alex Chiu

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Make no mistake, no matter what, I intend to pursue you, Lexie. To make it difficult, if not impossible for you to walk away … So?" She looked up at him with wide blue eyes. "You're a hard man to say no to," she murmured. He felt himself grin. "That's what I was hoping you'd say.

Science shows that passion is contagious, literally. You cannot inspire others unless you are inspired yourself. You stand a much greater chance of persuading and inspiring your listeners if you express an enthusiastic, passionate, and meaningful connection to your topic.

As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4

The Storyteller's Secret Storytellers who simplify complexity speak succinctly. They practice their pitch until they can tell a compelling story in as little as 60 seconds.