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It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.
You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade ...
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
We can convince ourselves of almost anything. We can talk ourselves, and often others, into most anything.
You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe
that's what I said at our first meeting
simply believe that you can.
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Encouragements are persuasive words.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
Charismatic Conviction 4: Charisma doesn't convince
Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.
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A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.
I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
I meant you're very, very persuasive and I doubt I'd resist for long if you set your mind to convincing me."
"Say no sometime. Let me persuade you.
Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk
You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense ... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
Ask the person trying to convince you of something to explain how it would work. Odds are they have not done the work required to hold an opinion.
If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
Unseen influences are the most persuasive.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
People are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.
I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
It is not my job to convince this man, or anyone for that matter, of anything. My only job is to walk my path.
Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him
I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.
The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true.
Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.
Facts and credibility only support persuasion.
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.
Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.
Advertising is the art of persuasion.
Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade.
A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
Persuasion is better than force.
It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.
You can't manage me, Lindsay. I'm more than happy to be the recipient of your persuasive skills, but not if you'll be pissed off when it doesn't get you what you want.
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!
If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. - DEAN RUSK
it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.
We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.
I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."
I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.