Quotes About Persuasion

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials.

I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.

Always remember, you don't need bad people to get bad deeds done. All you need is somebody clever enough to convince good people that a nefarious policy is actually the greatest thing since the pop-up toaster. As I have frequently observed, most of the serious evils in the world have been done in the name of good.

To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.