Quotes About Persuasion

you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

Movies are an authoritarian medium. They vulnerabilize you and then dominate you

It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

Ha. Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner. There's a double meaning in that.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step, That hath deprived me of your grace and favour; But even for want of that for which I am richer, A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not, though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking.

O, gentle lady, do not put me to't,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.

Most people in the grip of depression at its ghastliest are, for whatever reason, in a state of unrealistic hopelessness, torn by exaggerated ills and fatal threats that bear no resemblance to actuality. It may require on the part of friends, lovers, family, admirers, an almost religious devotion to persuade the sufferers of life's worth, which is so often in conflict with a sense of their own worthlessness, but such devotion has prevented countless suicides.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat

If you open a door, however, as Diane Nash did with her persistent questions, you offer the other a way out and all your power can be deployed in persuading them to take it. In short, rather than working to frustrate the other, focus on redirecting their attention to a positive outcome.

You may speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but it all depends how you speak it! Got to be tactful, persuasive, throw yourself on the mercy and indulgence of the law. Be humble and innocent, not stiff-backed and defiant.

Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often got her own way in the end.