Quotes About Persuasion

Whoever controls the media controls the mind.

Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I'm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in Titanic Rhapsody

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. No one's immune to bribery.

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words

Azok, akik szerint a szavaknak nincs hatalmuk, nincsenek tisztában a szavak természetével. A jól irányzott szavak véget vethetnek egy uralkodó rendszernek, vallást alapíthatnak vagy háborút indíthatnak. A szavak a hazugságok pásztorai, sorainkból a legjobbakat máglyára küldhetik.

eu, prestes a deixar o mundo, sentia um prazer satânico em mofar dele, em persuadir-me que não deixava nada.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to, Josef says. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person.

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

All I need is for one person to tell me to stop being stubborn.

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Crying is never an effective means of negotiation.

Never Raise Your Voice.. Just Improve The Quality Of Your Argument..

To advise is not to compel.

We don't mind if someone wants to give us advice; we only object if they insist we take it.

Never give advice - sell it.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

I quietly quaffed my cognac, discreetly admiring Lana's legs. Longer than the Bible and a hell of a lot more fun, they stretched forever, like an Indian yogi or an American highway shimmering through the Great Plains or the southwestern desert. Her legs demanded to be looked at and would not take no, non, nein, nyet, or even maybe for an answer.