Quotes About Persuasion

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

Krishna shrugged. "He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

To survive, you must look good or talk even better

A politician has an axe to grind With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession.

Di cosa non son capaci di persuaderci, queste donne, quando si mettono d'accordo per lasciarci brancolare nel buio.

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

Example has more followers than reason.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.