Quotes About Persuasion

in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

I'm considering whether or not to believe you. I need to run an algorithm on this. That's not funny. You might be trying to trick me into sleeping with you.

Green eggs and ham

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.