Quotes About Persuasion

It's important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

When I started this business, my job was to sell people on my brand and convince them to embrace it in a way that made sense to them.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this character is in is also real.

I don't have to convince anybody to do anything. I'm not in the head of any of my team-mates.

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Manuel Pellegrini had convinced me to go with him to Manchester City. I was doing very well at Malaga, but I accepted.

People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.

People assume that your audience is full of people who love you. But, typically, it's one person in four who's chosen to come and has convinced some other people to go with them.

It is easier to produce a film on your own than convincing another person to come on board.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board.

I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.

My ma is from County Clare, so she's a Munster fan, so she keeps sending me Munster jerseys all the time, trying to convert me to Munster.

When they don't know you, when you don't have credits and they're thinking, 'I don't know this French guy,' your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it's not easy.

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing that I'm going to say that's going to change that.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.