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Quotes About Persuasion

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
~ Paul Valery
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
~ Rachel Hartman
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.
~ Richard Ray Perez
Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.
~ Rockne S. O'Bannon
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
~ Seth Godin
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
~ William Hazlitt
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
~ William Matthews
True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.
~ J.Adam Snyder
They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.
~ Whoopi Goldberg, Book
Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.
~ Elvis Costello
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
~ Euripides, Orestes
Mira Grant, Blackout
~ Words have power.
Penetrating influence is in the power and strength of demonstration
~ Sunday Adelaja
I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word
~ Genesis Quihuis
The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
~ David Jeremiah
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
~ Elie Wiesel
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.
~ Henry C. Link
He was able to persuade the accounting department to pay for the cocaine Hunter had purchased to get members of the Oakland Raiders to open up during interviews.
~ William McKeen
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
~ William O. Douglas