Quotes About Persuasion

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

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Dad once defined leadership as the art of persuading people to do what they should have done in the first place. If they bullheadedly refuse to take this advice, there is not much the leader can do, in a free society.

there are individuals who by virtue of their genes or upbringing or psychological set, or maybe all three, have a frighteningly enhanced capacity to be brainwashed.

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

A wonderful thing one learns when one writes about imaginary kingdoms for a living is that, in fact, anyone can imagine anything, and if the writer is good, they can do it persuasively.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

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.

Không ai có th? thuy?t ph?c ng??i khác thay ??i. M?i cánh c?a c?a s? thay ??i v?n ch? có th? m? ???c t? bên trong b?n thân m?i ng??i. Dù b?ng lý l? hay s? lôi kéo tình c?m, b?n c?ng không th? m? cánh c?a ?ó c?a ng??i khác.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.