Quotes About Persuasion

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?