Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

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.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

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. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.