Quotes About Persuasion

You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

He tried to convince me. He spoke to me: 'You have to play for Belgium.' He came to talk to me, he's always talking to me. I told him 'it's difficult, Lukaku, can't do it, it's not the same. Playing for Belgium is something else. Playing for Selecao... It's Brazil, I feel at home.'

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.