"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others."
- Blaise Pascal

Creative, persuasive video inspired by the Gotye video -
'The Star Wars That I Used To Know'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE

"Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done."
- From the song 'Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

"Persuasion is converting people -- no, not to our way of thinking but to our way of feeling and believing."
- Cavett Robert

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."
- Thomas Carlyle 

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there." 
- E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960