Quotes About Persuasion

Mr. Mackenzie endeavoured to persuade me to buy a bed, but I refused for I had decided to have a new one. The bed in Mrs. Hall's boarding-house with its queer musty smell had given me a horror of second-hand beds and bedding. My refusal pained Mr. Mackenzie and to soothe his injured feelings I consented to buy a large old-fashioned chest of drawers and a standard lamp with a parchment shade.

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.

I had one little brother and I would use him as a scapegoat to get us games. Obviously, I would get the more girly toys like dolls and Barbies, yadda, yadda, yadda. But I really wanted video games or action figures or something so I would send him to ask mom, 'Hey, I want this video game' when it was really we wanted this video game.

Stories are one of the most powerful forces of persuasion available to us, especially stories that fit in with our view of what the world should be like. Facts can be contested. Stories are far trickier. I can dismiss someone's logic, but dismissing how I feel is harder.

I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey." -Hardy Cates

If there's one thing every man loves to do, it's telling a woman how to do something." They

If there's one thing every man loves to do, it's telling a woman how to do something.

Upon learning of Sebastian's success with the commissioner, Cam Rohan remarked admiringly, "That was a spruce trick, my lord. I'm beginning to think you can persuade anyone to do nearly anything." Sebastian grinned and glanced at Evie, who was sitting nearby. "I should think Lady St. Vincent is proof of that," he said.

How did you persuade the countess to confess so quickly?" she asked. "I would have thought she would have held out for days. I would have thought she would rather die than admit anything—" "I'm afraid that was the choice I gave her." Her eyes widened. "Oh," she whispered. -Lillian & Marcus

During bargaining talks, he always tried to maneuver the other side into saying yes as early and as often as possible.

Ella - "I want the truth!" Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella." Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.

Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

We encourage vigorous debate. Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

As hard as it is to change yourself, it's even harder to change someone else.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.