Quotes About Persuasion

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

We don't simply say something that's untrue. We make statements so insane that there's no possible intelligent response. Like arguing with some old fart in a rocking chair who claims we never landed on the moon. Any educated person can only laugh. Meanwhile, we've just won over all the non-moon-landing votes.

But how do you plan to convince everyone we're on the same side?" "Instead of being slaves to our toxic emotional times, we harness that outrage," said Serge. "So we just change the national slogan from 'Land of the Free' to 'Fuck Canada.' " Coleman nodded. "I think everyone can get behind that.

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.

When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

In my experience, influence is power.

I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side. I can see your side, said Cecily. I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.

If one has to say, in an argument, I am intelligent! I do know things! then one might as well stop arguing.

Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.