Quotes About Persuasion

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

They have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

Power comes only by persuasion; by love and service. It comes from trying and learning.

I'm not in love with Eiadh because she's the most beautiful young woman in Basilica and therefore quite probably in the entire world. I'm in love with her because we can talk together, because of the way she thinks, the sound of her voice, the way she cocks her head to listen to an idea she doesn't agree with, the way she rests her hand on mine when she's trying to persuade me.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. 6 VARELSE

Even if that's just bullshit, sir, it's first-rate bullshit.

Para impedir que un ser humano haga algo, hay que encontrar un medio para conseguir que deje de querer hacerlo.

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves and flatter them. Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view - she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough. As a result, they tipped their hand in every game and couldn't understand why everyone ganged up against them.

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Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view- she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Charm is getting people to say yes without ever having to ask them a question.