Quotes About Persuasion

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

Your voice determines people's perception probably more than your style or your jokes.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

How, then, might we contrive… one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

Those who tell the stories rule society.

It's a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Sebagai pengarang saya masih lebih percaya kepada kekuatan kata daripada kekuatan peluru yang gaungnya hanya akan berlangsung sekian bagian dari menit, bahkan detik.

In his room, Elvis gave two large red pills, explaining, "Take this now, and by the time you come to bed, you'll be nice and relaxed." I really didn't need anything but he insisted, saying that they would help me sleep better...

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

sweet talkers can convert even enemies to friends. So, they do not have any enemies.

Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun.

What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition – I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another: in fact, if I read something I admired I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

When finally we are able to converse, I find her decided, fully formed, already beyond the reach of persuasion. My relationship with her is like my relationship with anybody: it takes the form of a search for oneness, a oneness lost but haunting with the prospect of its recapture.

You're beautiful, Delaney, and you could have anyone you want. Why me?" She knew she wasn't beautiful, not like her mother. But the way he looked at her and touched her, and the tone of his voice when he said it made her almost believe him. He made her believe anything was possible. "Because you make me not want to say no.