Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Power comes through public persuasion.

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

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

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.