Quotes About Persuasion

David's charm, which he'd learned to focus with dazzling effectiveness. He'd take words out of his companion's sentences and repeat them, as if they had crystallized thoughts in his own mind; when bumping into someone again, he'd act as if he'd been barely able to function in the intervening minutes. Sometimes, talking to him, the objects of his attention would experience that giddy, tingly feeling you get when you're in love.

I've noticed that TV commercials are often in C.

If you believe it," Evie told her once, "everyone else will, too. Sell it to yourself and the world will follow your lead.

She nodded thoughtfully. "Well, I've found men will believe almost anything when their blood is flowing away from their brains.

I'd like an armchair for the bedroom," he murmured. "What do we need an armchair in the bedroom for?" she said. "We have a couch outside." "Buy the chair and I'll show you." After the chair was delivered, he undressed her and kneeled between her legs upraised on the chair arms. Afterward she agreed it was money well spent.

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.

Selling to the right person is more important than all the sales methods, copywriting techniques, and negotiation tactics in the world. Because the wrong person doesn't have the money. Or the wrong person doesn't care. The wrong person won't be persuaded by anything.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many things happen. If we say or write words in a certain way, we can make people see things that aren't there and feel things they have no reason to feel—all this with mere mouth sounds or paper marks.

babies are God's way of persuading parents to have teenagers.

I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

AL MIRAR ATRÁS me di cuenta de que mi experiencia en Sony demostraba que contar cara a cara la historia adecuada, en el entorno preciso, en el momento idóneo y de la manera más pertinente, puede inducir a los oyentes a actuar, y también puede modificar la trayectoria de éxitos del narrador.

para tener éxito, usted tiene que convencer a otros para que respalden su visión, su sueño o su causa.

Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts.

Two caveats about this collective brainwashing need stressing. First, it did not necessarily change what older people thought, but it decisively changed what they would say or do.

News Corp. used the same footage to sell patriotism in America and in China, and in both places the people bought it.

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

His father-in-law, the girlís father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.