Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.