Quotes About Persuasion

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

I don't have any favorite episodes from 'Joanie Loves Chachi.' I liked working with the people. But I didn't even want to do it. I was talked into it.

I definitely had to be talked into 'American Pie: Reunion.' I was hesitant because I'm on a show, and I felt, 'I'm happy. I've got my family.' But then I met the directors, who also wrote it, and once I read the script, I was like, 'OK, sign me up.'

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and not the truth. Each will be permitted to propagandize, each will have to propagandize if it is to hold its own, because it is acknowledged that there is no common ground for the alternative to propaganda, which is reasonable persuasion.

Once angels get an idea in their head, there's no arguing with them. Like cops and people who listen to reggae.

I don't believe in conspiracies. Guys will say anything to get laid.

credibility of doctrine is not established until we are persuaded beyond doubt that God is its Author. Thus, the highest proof of Scripture derives in general from the fact that God in person speaks in it.

What good, after all, do these two things do the man, who both admits that what has been said is true, and has high praise for the speech it has been said in, and still does not yield that full assent,

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

We do not always believe things because they're true. More often than not, we believe things because they're expedient.

Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Men are usually trying to get into my bed, not out of it.