Quotes About Persuasion

Êtes-vous si fort dans l'art de la dispute? demanda le curé, vous l'emportez sur les nôtres ! Je n'ai pas disputé, répondit M. de Rollebon, je lui ai fait peur de l'enfer.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.