Quotes About Persuasion

As for her charmspeak, she'd gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it.

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

now Viola could see the value of sounding chirpy even when you didn't feel like it. You were more likely to get what you wanted, for one thing.

Seduction is nothing more than knowing that you want someone and then showing them, very gradually, very deliberately, that you do. It's the way you do it – reveal, tease, ignore, take it back – that makes it seduction.

In her experience, language cannot be trusted. Words are weapons to be deployed cautiously.

She didn't. I hadn't seen or spoken to Hailey since I left Silence. He frowned. Then she made that stuff up? Nell sipped her coffee, then smiled. She always made stuff up, Max. Didn't you know? You're saying she was a liar? Sweet, friendly Hailey. So charming, so good-tempered. And she had a way about her, didn't she? A way of… getting people behind her. A way of making people believe her. Not exactly my strong suit, huh?

Of course Bridget couldn't afford the trip. Mr. Hoover had been especially rough on Kentucky. but she accumulated more than enough money for her passage. She had gone to each of the children, there were ten, and humiliated them to the point that they sold animals and automobiles and whatever they could find to sell to give their mother money. One son sold half his timber land. She made them feel guilty over not having enough children, not looking after her in her old age, not speaking Gaelic.

And when someone's asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I

Rule 46 When There Is a Weak Point in Your Case, Don't Pretend that It Isn't a Weak Point Admit it, and show the factfinder how you still ought to succeed despite that weakness.

Yes you're getting your tattoo. I threw my arms around Dad's neck. Thank you! Hey, Mom said. I'm the one who had to persuade him it wasn't turning his little girl into a streetwalker. I never said that, Dad said. No? I said. Cool. Cause I've decided to skip the paw print. I'm thinking of a tramp stamp with flames that says 'Hot in Here.' No wait. Arrows. For directionally challenged guys

Between Ricky's charm and persuasion and Gabriel's lock picking and sleight of hand, if I took enough lessons, I could become a first-rate private eye. Or a master criminal.

Thank God for your amazing powers of persuasion." "Yeah, if only they worked when he was really pissed. And really pissed off." "Still, you need to teach me how to do that sometime, so I can use it on my dad, get whatever I want." "Like you don't already." "Maybe. But I'm always looking for ways to fine-tune the process." He shook his head and waved me to the truck.

He was one of those guys who can talk to anyone--and talk his way out of trouble, which in Corey's case is a necessary survival skill.

So how'd you get Dad to agree? Did you play the cultural card?" "Of course not. That would be wrong." I grinned. "You did, didn't you?

No matter how long she argued, people would believe the priests, not

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.

proselytizers

You never win a vote by proving the constituent a fool. Be charming, be modest, and don't lose your temper.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I

Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.