Quotes About Persuasion

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

Lippmann entendía que la «persuasión» iba a ser una modalidad profesional relevante en los años siguientes, como «un arte sutil y un órgano regular del gobierno popular». Y añadió algo que en general se subestimó: «Ninguno de nosotros alcanza a comprender las consecuencias, pero no es una profecía muy arriesgada decir que saber cómo conseguir la sumisión de la gente guiará todas las premisas políticas».

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

situarse en el ámbito del Sistema 2, pero ha de entenderse sobre todo como la capacidad para elaborar y convertir en argumentos persuasivos lo que esencialmente es Sistema 1.

Así pues, el territorio de la estrategia es la negociación y la persuasión, al igual que las amenazas y la presión, se recurre tanto a los efectos psicológicos como a los físicos, y a las palabras como a los hechos. Esta es la razón por la que la estrategia es el arte esencial de la política. Y se trata de conseguir de una situación concreta más de lo que el equilibrio inicial de fuerzas podría sugerir. Es el arte de crear poder.

It is the art of creating power.

Heeding Warnings about Violent Conflict? Persuasion in Foreign Policy.

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.

Greatness lies in persuading others to work for good.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?

I have always found that the only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries further.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

When you are a designer, you have to be able to convey your ideas to people who are not designers; perhaps they are financing you or going to do the production, and you have to be able to turn them on to the product and its feasibility. Jony was able to do that.

When you are a designer, you have to be able to convey your ideas to people who are not designers; perhaps they are financing you or going to do the production, and you have to be able to turn them on to the product and its feasibility.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.