Quotes About Persuasion

That's one of the problems with humans—that we can be talked out of loving something. That we can be talked out of loving something that we do, and we can be talked out of loving ourselves. Easily, unfortunately

That's one of the problems with humans—that we can be talked out of loving something. That we can be talked out of loving something that we do, and we can be talked out of loving ourselves.

You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?

the narcissist has learned that other people do not always do his bidding or meet his demands in the way that he expects. He has, therefore, developed formidable manipulation skills, at times deceitfully, to achieve his goals. Sometimes these skills are a highly developed ability to charm and bring others under his spell or influence.

Books no longer have the power they once did.

She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit whole inside the soul, undiminished by conversation, by any attempt at translation or persuasion.

It is early morning; outside, the sky is dark and the trees move dramatically in the wind. Soon a storm will come. I want to live to see it. This is the way of nature: to persuade us around one more bend, to beckon us to behold one more vista.

This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.

insisted, "until the point is inarguable.

Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-

Politics isn't about reality, it's about what you can make people believe is real.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

No blandishments could make those cats stir if they weren't in the mood, and one does want whatever one is calling to come.

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

Working title? Paddy says. <...> Same as the novel, he says. To persuade people it's an adaptation of something a lot of people bought so it must be good.

the number-one rule in making shit up: Make it so unbelievable that people have to believe it.

A terrified rat will swear to anything.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Fazla seçeneÄŸi yoktu; bu yüzden her h?rs?z?n istediÄŸini alabilmek için kulland??? en eski ve güvenilir metodu kullanmaya karar verdi: Kibarca istemek. (syf. 20)

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Las teorías sirven para irritar a los filisteos, para seducir a los estetas y para que los demás se rían

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.