Quotes About Persuasion

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

A confidence man knows he's lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.