Power of Suggestion Quotes

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

Andrew Creighton, who ran Europe for us and who now runs the company day-to-day, would always go to the people he would hire and say, "Look, I don't know what it is, but whatever this guy says comes true because he's got some sort of weird self-fulfilling-prophecy thing." And that's exactly right. The reason I was so bombastic or whatever was because you have to believe it.

I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

You know, the less you say, the more they wonder.

I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.

Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.