The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole lab at Stanford that teaches students how to apply persuasive psychology principles into technology to persuade people to use products in a certain way.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
Kindness is more persuasive than force.
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.