265 Quotes About Persuasion

Expression is saying what you really feel. Impression is saying what others want to hear.

Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.

basic rule of negotiation is to know what you want, what you need to walk away with in order to be whole.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Reason… suasion. Thought! As always, the answer is in an appeal to rationality!

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]