Quotes About Persuasion

direct, so bright and clear of eye and manner, that he found it hard to believe she was any man's game. But even if she were, the Biblical analogy that had occurred to him in the mine that day still held good. But how to bring her to repentance? How make a person aware of sin when their unawareness was so complete? It

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The Soviet machine is quite convinced it can get everything by bullying, and I am sure it is a matter of some importance to show that this is not necessarily always true.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

Weide will at least have the personal good feeling of having been on the right side of a nasty issue, unlike a great number of people he had tried vainly to persuade who will no doubt be awash in assorted creative rationalizations. If it turns out there is a heaven, I believe Weide will have a good table—in the nonsmoking section.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

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There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

Peacock in real life undid Shelley's vegetarianism by waving a steak under his nose when he fainted,

Onlookers who fell for Bukharin's big moment would fall for anything.

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.

If you ask, "I'm not saying I'll buy this refrigerator, but if I do, when do you think you could deliver it?" he'll say, "When would you like it delivered?" When you reply, "How about early this afternoon?" he'll say, "Why so soon?" At that point one of you will comment, "Because we have about seventy dollars' worth of food spoiling rapidly.

Does the salesman like this information? Yes, because you've exposed your deadline to him without knowing his.

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.