Quotes About Persuasion

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Life's a pitch, and then you buy.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than what you have to say.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

Every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you of all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own.

But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.

You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Then--in correcting the entity--do not ever break the entity's will! Reason with the entity, for the mental ability and aspects will incline to make the entity become stubborn, if there is the attempt to force or to cause the entity to act in any direction or manner "just because." Tell [the entity] why!

Leadership" is wanting to do something new and better, and getting others to go along.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.

Often we are persuaded by authority and repetition rather than by evidence and reality.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.