Doesn't Hurt to Ask Quotes

“Getting someone to do something they were not planning on doing. Convincing someone to buy into something they never knew they were looking for. That is persuasion.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“In persuasion there is no clock; there is an acquired sense of when there is an opening and an even more acquired sense of when to step into that opening.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“You own every declarative comment that comes out of your mouth, but with questions you have an out. Because of that, questions are perhaps first and foremost the safest route in the art of persuasion.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“Lying is not simply making a false statement. There are scores of false statements uttered every day out of memory failures, innocent misrecollections, accidents, and mistakes. A false statement is the second-worst thing you can do if your goal is to communicate effectively or persuade, but it is not the worst. The worst is to make an intentionally false statement that is material to a point in question, with the intent to deceive. People can,”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“What is the origin of evil and, if objective truth existed before one-third of the angels were expelled from heaven, what is the source of that objective evil they chose which led to their expulsion?”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“True and artful persuasion is teaching without either of you identifying who is the teacher and who is the student.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“I used to confuse persuasion with arguing or pushing someone to do something, but nearly thirty years of practicing the art of persuasion has given me a decidedly different perspective.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“What do you want to accomplish? And the first cousins to that question follow closely behind: What is your objective? How do you measure success at the end of the interaction? Who is your jury? How hard will it be to prove it?”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“Questions can gather the time, the information, and the interpersonal connectivity to persuade in ways that simply proclaiming what you believe cannot accomplish.”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade

“Most people can attempt to persuade by saying what they believe and why, but can you persuade by asking the right questions, at the right time, in the right order? More important, can you, in essence, have the person with whom you are talking convince themselves?”
― Trey Gowdy, Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade