Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

Tactics are manipulative.

I don't need much coaxing.

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

I work my angles and things like that.

Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.