Quotes About Persuasion

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

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your audience needs, and do your best day after day to meet those needs. But that's not persuasion, which works faster. To persuade someone that you're a caring person, you need to do two things. First, show you understand. Second, offer to make some little sacrifice.

Rhetoric has a name for debating that seeks to win points: eristic.

The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

While the rest of the world fights, we'll argue. And argument gets you what you want more than fighting does.

En una lucha, los contendientes intentan vencer. En una discusión, intentan vencer a una audiencia, que puede incluir a los testigos directos, los telespectadores, un electorado o los interlocutores.

el argumento que apela al bastón (la lucha) no es un argumento. Jamás convence, tan solo inspira venganza o retirada.

La diferencia esencial entre una argumentación y una lucha: una argumentación efectuada con destreza consigue que la gente haga lo que tú quieras. Luchas para ganar; discutes para alcanzar un acuerdo.

A bullying occasion should not be about the bully. That's just what the bully wants. It's about the audience. And a bully can give you the chance to enhance your ethos to that audience.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Où il me dégoûtait surtout c'était avec les femmes. La première fois qu'on est venu ici, ça a commencé avec l'Anaïs. Il l'a pas laissée servir un verre sans y faire du boniment.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. —C. K. Chesterton, via Evelyn Waugh

But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.

Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he'd bestowed on him yet. You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that's impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.

This is truly a sad comedown for a man and a Geiger. Please say you'll talk some sense into him.

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Words are loaded pistols.

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard