Joe E. Lewis Quotes

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

The capacity to persuade is an essential part of being a great leader.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

I am a very persuasive man.

Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.