Ertharin Cousin Quotes

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

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

I can make men follow me to hell.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power comes through public persuasion.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I am a very persuasive man.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.