Manipulate Quotes

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.

The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.