Quotes About Persuasion

After only a few minutes of back-and-forth questions their arguments always unravel—yet their conviction remains. One lesson I've learned from these years of public engagements with Christian apologists is that the arguments they offer for their faith are not the reason they have faith.

how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.

Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

Failures are part of life, but most people deny their persuasion due to fear of failure.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

I wasn't expecting you to just let me in after everything you've been through, I'm expecting myself to be patience and persuasive till you finally realize how much you trust me.

A verdade que depositamos nas palavras não abre caminho diretamente, não tem irresistível evidência. Cumpre que decorra o tempo necessário para que se possa formar no interlocutor uma verdade da mesma espécie. E então o adversário político, que, apesar de raciocínios e provas, considerava traidor ao sectário da doutrina oposta, chega a compartilhar das detestadas convicções quando já não interessam àquele que antes tentava inutilmente difundi-las.

Ce qui est étonnant, dit-il, c'est que ce public qui ne juge ainsi des hommes et des choses de la guerre que par les journaux est persuadé qu'il juge par lui-même. »

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.

It's a lousy salesman who talks too much.