Quotes About Persuasion

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

Rache," he said, trying to get into my line of sight. "What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

The best defense is a good story.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

I am very good at groveling.