Quotes About Persuasion

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.

You can sell more pills if you can convince people that being sad is a disease.

En kötüsü, hay?r demeyi ö?renemedim. Yeme?e kal, dediler: kald?m. Oysa, kal?nmaz. Onlar biraz ?srar ederler; sen biraz nazlan?rs?n. Sonunda kalk?p gidilir. Her söylenileni ciddiye almak yok mu, ?u sözünün eri olmak yok mu; bitirdi, y?kt? beni.

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

seduce people and hold them.

One has to tell people what to think. There is no alternative. Otherwise, someone else will do it.

One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.

One evening, when Stephen started to read out loud to her from one of his favorite authors, in an attempt to lure her inside the books, she told him good-naturedly, for goodness' sake not to spout any more of that dead, old-fashioned, high-brow stuff to her. It gave her the fidgets.

In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Name-calling, insult, ridicule, guilt by association, caricature, innuendo, accusation, denunciation, negative ads, and deceptive and manipulative videos have replaced deliberation and debate. Neither side talks to the other side, only about them; and there is no pretence of democratic engagement, let alone a serious effort at persuasion.

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

But there is no McTheory when it comes to persuasion. There is no such thing as McApologetics, though it is significant that the nearest one-size-fits-all approach—the Four Spiritual Laws—was also created at the same time and in the same place as the first flourishing of McDonald's as we know it and the first theme park run by Walt Disney: 1950s California.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

Whenever apologetics is needed, it should precede evangelism, but while apologetics is distinct from evangelism, it must always lead directly to it. The work of apologetics is only finished when the door to the gospel has been opened and the good news of the gospel can be proclaimed.

This book focuses on a narrower issue and a simple problem: We have lost the art of Christian persuasion and we must recover it.