Quotes About Persuasion

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. MARK TWAIN

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

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 argument or emotional appeal.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

I've never met anyone who has changed his mind or deepened his faith because he has been confronted with such angry condemnations.

Everything that you say can influence a person; so choose your words carefully.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I have seen her do a thousand such tricks a thousand times. My father always fell for them. He believed the world's natural order was to please him.

I had asked Odysseus: 'What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?' He'd smiled in the firelight. 'That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

How will I explain it all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to everybody?" "You know, people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.