Quotes About Persuasion

Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends.

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

Language is power. Words shape the way we interact with the world.

We're not in an Age of Politics, we're in an Age of Netflix. It's who can tell the most compelling story who wins.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

I gave it to him because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

I gave her a long, searching look. I would do as she asked; we both knew that. She thought she persuaded me with her talk of family feeling and my father, but that was not why I helped her. Hatred, as it happens, can be as strong an inducement as the gentler emotions

it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

And I thought I had persuaded you. Oh, child, what must I say to convince you of the dangers before you?" "Surely it cannot be so bad as all that. I expect you are merely hungry. Things always look darkest when one is hungry or tired, I find.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you want them to hear, and they'll soon turn away.

Leadership is influence

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.

Speaking doesn´t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.