Quotes About Persuasion

What I'm trying to tell you is this: cat people-ness is contagious. If you're not careful, they can turn you out as one of them.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

You change a man's mind by showing him a good time.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Any chance of persuading my Healer to add a bit of food to that?" Jaenelle's head popped out of the kitchen doorway. "How does a large slice of fresh bread soaked in beef broth sound?" About as edible as the table leg. "Do I have any choices?" "No." "Sounds wonderful.

Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.

Absurdities exasperated her. At the same time, the slow process of patiently leading recalcitrant thinkers to better thoughts by artful persuasions seemed to her a waste of time--a logical argument, cogently expressed, was surely sufficient to convince, and if it did not convince, then the case might well be hopeless and not worth pursuing.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it's better than rats.

She was determined to buy whatever he was selling.

FINALLY she had convinced him that she would still respect him in the morning.

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.

Even research communities of highly intelligent and well-meaning individuals can fall prey to confirmation bias, as IQ is positively correlated with the number of reasons people find to support their own side in an argument

We did not evolve to solve tricky logic puzzles on our own, they point out, and so we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that we're no good at it, any more than by the fact that we're no good at breathing underwater. What we did evolve to do is persuade other people of our views, and to guard against being misled by others. Reasoning is a social activity, in other words, and should be practiced as such.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

I think the best promo guys make it sound like it's not a promo.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Everybody is promoting something.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.