Quotes About Persuasion

He had come to Austin because he needed something, and she wanted him as uncomfortable as possible while he asked for whatever it was.

It's a special art, asking people to do things, yet making it seem as if you never asked at all.

It's amazing what you can do, if you just study what people want to hear said and then say it to them!

Show me you have enough power to make it worth my while, and I'll give you any body fluid you want.

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 

Minds dismembered by their sexual part' Balthazar had said once 'never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them that silence and quietness are not hostile.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.