Quotes About Persuasion

He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion.

Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn't refuse.

Why would you do that? Why would you act like you didn't know how to drive?" "Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you - one I knew you couldn't refuse

So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

I followed along because really, it was hard to say no to Dimitri Belikov about anything.

Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.

You've given some pretty convincing arguments, but you're still a long way from winning me over." "I haven't even really tried," he said, in a rare moment of arrogance. "When I want to, I can be very persuasive." "Yeah? Prove it." His lips moved toward mine. "I was hoping you'd say that.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract others.

Mister Thorn, something tells me you could sell salvation to a priest.

and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

people are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.

Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.

When talking with older men, men who could help him, Lyndon Johnson "gave them," this aide says, "whatever they wanted to hear.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love.

Jubal, you talk like a harem guard trying to convince a whole man of the advantages of being a eunuch.

Prof's purpose was to short him out – but sometimes Prof was too subtle; some people talk better if they breathe vacuum.

I don't know. I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth—then shut up. It

Can Penny come in?"  "Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still 'No.' "  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?

Boss, I keep telling you: it's impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he's eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he'll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.) Jake

Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.