Manipulate Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Struggle, Ordinary

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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• As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Ideas, People

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarib, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

  Cass Sunstein

  People, Done, Humans

  "Glenn Beck: Are You a Radical?". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2010.

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• The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

  Bob Brozman

  Running, Moving, Air

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• We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself. The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, goes further still: it attempts not just to understand but also to build intelligent entities.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

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• The system itself has the mark of cleverness and ingenuity.... When you manipulate the menu system, you feel as though you are at the helm of the future.... The Xbox probably has the most raw potential for excellent games

  Jerry Holkins

  Xbox, Games, Excellent

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• How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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

  Caroline Myss

  Self, Expression, People

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.7, Harmony

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

  Germaine Greer

  Pussy, Fool, Tactics

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

  Alice Notley

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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

  Bethenny Frankel

  Fate, Certainty In Life, I Realized

  Bethenny Frankel (2012). “Skinnydipping: A Novel”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.

  Mike Gravel

  War, Gay, Race

  Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press

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• As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

  Bruno Schulz

  Broken, House, Everyday

  Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”

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• Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

  Gore Verbinski

  Honesty, Philosophy, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Ice, Design

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• To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

  Randal Marlin

  Powerful, Mistake, Winning

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press

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

  Leslie Lamport

  Thinking, Language, Ability

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

  Justin Sane

  Media, Issues, Care

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• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

  Marvin E. Frankel

  Communication, Thinking, Achievement

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• What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

  Joe Grant

  Inspiration, Expression, Ease

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

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Circumstances

  Twitter post from May 03, 2016

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