Quotes About Persuasion

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

If you're going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad. You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you've come in with a good price.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.

Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

When you are explaining, you're losing...

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds.

I tell you this: you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault'—not 'leadership.'… I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know—or believe in—or will practice.

you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault'—not 'leadership.'… I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work.

And I tell you this: you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault'—not 'leadership.'…I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know—or believe in—or will

The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape the debate – arm him well for the national arena.

If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

His second message was that a smart orator could, if he knew the tricks, hypnotize the crowd into acquiescence or whip it up to do his bidding. Le Bon listed the tricks: 'A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.

Goebbels thinks that no one since the Frenchman LeBon has understood the mind of the masses as well as he," wrote Goebbels's aide Rudolf Semmler in his wartime diary.