Quotes About Persuasion

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.

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If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

As compelling as it may be to try and convince our friends to stop investing in that 'bubble' real estate market, or get your parents to move overseas with you, they have to make the decision on their own.

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Yeah, actually, I don't want to admit that I like 'Girls', but a girl I was dating a while ago got me to start watching 'Girls.' It's really well-written and I enjoy that.

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Whenever you try to preach something, people will not accept or invite it into their lives. But if it is said in a light way, people understand it better, and it is as true for films as it is for life.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.