Quotes About Persuasion

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.