Quotes About Persuasion

The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven't made up their minds yet.

Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

In many cases, your success is going to depend on your ability to think in reverse, something Trump is a master of. Thinking in reverse comes into play when you make a proposal that is so outrageous that you know it has no chance of acceptance in its raw form and then reversing your course and agreeing to modify your proposal to make it more palatable for the other side.

About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It comes for free, however, like air pollution, Muzak in elevators, and the gentle sound of police sirens.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

and Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.

Power resides where men believe it resides.

Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

Words are wind, and men will lie to get their way, as any maid could tell you.

El poder reside donde los hombres creen que reside.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.

it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.