Manipulate Quotes

Manipulate Quote of the day

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.

If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.