Quotes About Persuasion

Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron.

How do you make a man do something without nagging?" "That," said Madeline, "is the billion-dollar question.

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She could bully anyone into buying anything.

one of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases.

He wasn't falling for the lie, she could tell. He didn't need to believe it as badly as her parents did.

How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

It is not just the information that is important. How it is presented is equally important.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

You must be who you are - that which you tell yourself and what you've convinced others to believe.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

We buy into all kinds of lies that are sold to us from advertising to Fox news or from the Vatican to Goldman Sachs.

People's attention spans, first of all, aren't always long enough. You also want to not be preachy. You want to be able to try and get the good stuff, like me and Donald say, the vegetables with the chocolate.