Quotes About Persuasion

If he keeps himself at the hub of this life in London, nothing can touch him. Here, in this skiff, in this city, in this life, he can almost persuade himself that if he were to return, he would find them as they were, unchanged, untrammelled, three children asleep in their beds. He uncovers his eyes, lifts them to the jumbled roofs of houses, dark shapes above the flexing, restless surface of the river. He shuts his long-sighted eye and stares down the city with an imperfect, watery gaze.

We speak with our lips to explain, with our throats to convince.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

It is fascinating to see how politicians can become convinced of a material fact when it is actually only supposition.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

Dialectic, she says, describes the rational discussion between those who hold conflicting positions, to find resolution and deduce the truth through the disciplines of logic and reason. Rhetoric, meanwhile, is the art of persuasion. It makes use of invention, arrangement, delivery and style. Therefore, can the delivery and style of rhetoric take precedence over truth?

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself. - Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

Recruiting Is Sales

who offered to make him bishop of Strasbourg if he would stay.

Man's duty is to persuade and forgive, not to judge and punish. Kindness breeds kindness, and it is pity that wins amendment.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

It's not whether she tells everyone," Huma said. "It's whether they believe her." "It's the truth." "Oh, my daughter," Huma said, and smiled. "Don't tell me you don't know how little that actually means.

They both came away from the meeting feeling like they had manipulated the other precisely, which meant it was a good meeting.

Clever techniques borrowed from slick salesmen have no place in evangelism because they are not crafted with the character of God in mind.

Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that jack handle 'fore you hurt somebody.

Lead 'em around and around,'' said Joad. "Sling 'em in the irrigation ditch. Tell 'em they'll burn in hell if they don't think like you. What the hell you want to lead 'em someplace for? Jus' lead 'em.

He found that he could communicate his material daydreaming—and, properly applied, that is all advertising is.

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