Jennifer Armentrout Quotes

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

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

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

You have convinced me that you are right. Now go out there and force me to do it.

I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

There's going to be people that try to sway you to do things that you shouldn't do.