Manipulate Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Energy, Want

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• The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

  Scott Porter

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Scott Porter: Nobody wants to watch guys ride a mechanical bull". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 19, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Ensign

  Wall, Business, Vegas

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• Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, Media, Dancer

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• 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

  Hands, People, Trying

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• It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

  Hans Haacke

  Artist, Issues, Psychology

  Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press

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• I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

  Susan Stewart

  Trying, Manipulation, Toys

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

  C. Wright Mills

  Labor Force, People, Individual

  "White Collar: The American Middle Classes". Study by C. Wright Mills, 1951.

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• Manipulated, one manipulates others.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Other Wind”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "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

  Struggle, Organization, People

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

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• The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.

  Miguel

  Heart, Giving, Drug

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• The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipulate that is a really easy way to connect with people.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Hate, Emotional

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Girl, Jobs, Women

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Survival, Enlightenment

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• In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have used it most effectively, to manipulate men; it's a justifiable reaction that has been necessary for survival.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Survival

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Sides

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Want, Helping

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

  Walter Cronkite

  Class, People, Political

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• 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.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Trying, Landscape, Way

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• Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

  Vivian Campbell

  Cutting, Technology, Doe

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 201.

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• Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Charles R. Swindoll (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Stupid, Easy

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1333, Macmillan

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• I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

  Girl Talk

  Interesting, Ironic, Want

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

  Daniel Dennett

  Dog, Commitment, Simple

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