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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. -- Erich Fromm
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 theres some kind of change. -- Bob Dylan
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. -- John Boorman
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. -- Michael Ende
Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've never tried to manipulate my image. -- Alan Alda
Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working. -- Bridget Moynahan
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. -- Neville Marriner
I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions. -- Sarah Kane
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. -- Pele
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. -- Dario Argento
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features -- Joseph Joubert
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. -- John C. Maxwell
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate. -- Wayne Dyer
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. -- George Will
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. -- Christopher Lasch
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure. -- Charles Eisenstein
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. -- Robert Foster Bennett
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. -- Dean Koontz
If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules. -- Juan Enriquez
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. -- Deepak Chopra
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. -- William Arthur Ward
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. -- Paulo Freire
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. -- William Martin
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. -- will.i.am
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. -- Robert D. Hare
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. -- Jim Bolger
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. -- Shakti Gawain
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -- Pope Paul VI
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. -- Mario Cuomo
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. -- David Cronenberg
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. -- Salma Hayek
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. -- Dorothy Height
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. -- Edward Bernays
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, 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. -- David Crystal
When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness. -- Marci Shimoff
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. -- Mos Def
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. -- Shirley Manson
I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels. -- Megan Fox
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. -- Evgeny Morozov
The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on. -- John Gerzema
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. -- Erich Fromm
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. -- Nick Cave
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it. -- Zooey Deschanel
Intelligence can be used to manipulate. -- Kofi Annan
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate. -- Andy Mineo
Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially. -- John Stossel
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women -- Jenny Holzer
Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter. -- J. K. Rowling
The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic -- Aesop Rock
True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them. -- Myles Munroe
Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate. -- David Anthony Durham
The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians. -- John Stossel
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid. -- Orson Scott Card
Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls? -- Simone Elkeles
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system. -- Ludacris
A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets. -- Sol Stein
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. -- Raymond Aron
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons. -- Christopher Hitchens
In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it. -- Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients. -- Mallory Ortberg
Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you. -- Angelique Kidjo
He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside. -- Joan Didion
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. -- Bethenny Frankel
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. -- Louise Erdrich
There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. -- Stephen Hopkins
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. -- Sylvia Plath
I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves. -- Robert Barry
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled. -- Bob Goff
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I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side. -- David Henrie
It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom. -- Mooji
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible. -- Janet Morris
When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you. -- Garrett Clayton
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things. -- Erich Fromm
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get. -- Marcia Gay Harden
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you. -- John Smith
A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail. -- Mario Cuomo
Some leaders manipulate and intimidate while others demonstrate and motivate. Be the leader you would follow!~ -- Bobby Compton
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. -- Joseph Wambaugh
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. -- John Cassavetes
What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology. -- Kevin Mitnick
[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols . -- C. Wright Mills
We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell. -- David Attenborough
I can't escape reality but my mind can twist it for me. Therefore, mind can manipulate things. -- Aser Alas Jr.
You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances. -- Krishna Das
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. -- Simon Sinek
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks. -- Chris Riddell
As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work. -- Peter Jackson
The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system. -- Laszlo Bock
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. -- Scarlett Johansson
Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . . -- William P. Young
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. -- Caroline Myss
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate. -- Joey Skaggs
I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how. -- Keith Barry
There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about. -- Justin Sane
I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit. -- Jessica Alba
I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. -- Guy Davenport
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. -- Steve Martin
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction. -- Amishi Jha
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process. -- David Blunkett
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? -- Paul Watson
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. -- Rob Bell
Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people. -- Chevy Chase
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. -- Bruce Sterling
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. -- Susan Stewart
I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. -- Lauryn Hill
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive. -- Patrick Heusinger
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. -- Lauryn Hill
When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it. -- Julie Delpy
There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them. -- Kelseyleigh Reber
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. -- David Platt
Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information. -- Richard Ray Perez
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead. -- Randy Harrison
There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie. -- Randal Marlin

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