Keith Barry Quotes

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

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

Human beings all mimic each other.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Power comes through public persuasion.

… the thug is aware that loudness convinces 60 persons where reasoning convinces but one..

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.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

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