Quotes About Persuasion

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

I have always found that if I came in excessively prepared, emphasis on excessively, that was sort of the best case I could make for myself.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

I always believe that if you're looking at a magazine and I'm one of 40 ads, I - in effect - get one-fortieth of your attention. But if, when you close that magazine, you're still thinking about my ad, I've got a lot more than one-fortieth of your attention.

I can sell a fight, make no mistake.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

I'm very good at manipulation.