Quotes About Persuasion

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

The media is so powerful.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

Sometimes whatever you say to players is not enough to convince them your choice is the right one.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.

The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't.

The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.