Manipulate Quotes - Page 9

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

  Amishi Jha

  Memories, Block, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye.

  Tom Hoover

  Eye, Hands, Intuition

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• Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ego, Inspire

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• 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.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Competition, Opinion, Internet

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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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• 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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• What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

  Oliver Stone

  Issues, Media, Perspective

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• We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

  Jean Houston

  Artist, Player, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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