Manipulation Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Issues, Support, Democracy

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• The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Winning, Way

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Covering, Goods And Services

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• I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

  Neil LaBute

  Lying, Ideas, Deceit

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• Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Clothes, Want

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• Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

  Laozi

  Serenity, Mind, Taoism

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• It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Business, Decision

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Levels

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• I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

  Dean Koontz

  Use, Literature, Levels

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• The world cannot be governed without juggling.

  John Selden

  Leadership, World, Juggling

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.69

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• Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

  Jasper Johns

  Space, Painting

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• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  Bruce Kent

  Organization, Awful, Power Corrupts

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• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

  Norman Spinrad

  Mexico, Myth, Archetype

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• This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Age, Technique

  "Manipulating Public Opinion". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 33 (pp. 958-971), May 1928.

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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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• Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

  Katherine Dunn

  Two, Long, People

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• Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

  Gavin Bryars

  Musical, Cards, Development

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• I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

  Garth Ennis

  Hands, People, Abuse

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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Technology

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• Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Powerful, Yield, Demand

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Fighting, Political

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Reality, People, World

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• Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

  Lawrence M. Schoen

  Magic, Coincidence, Deliberate

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• The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Reality, Law, Realizing

  Barbara Marciniak (1992). “Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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