Best 326 quotes in «manipulation quotes» category

When you struggle with fear and trust issues, be aware that you may not trust yourself. You are the first person you must learn to trust.

Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.

Why do you need validation? Will it serve you to see proof? Let me tell you it hurts more if you do. Here is where you must set boundaries. Cheating a one strike rule because for every one strike you catch them on, you missed three.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

You are enough, you can care for yourself. Stop believing the narcissists lies and do the work to heal.

You can’t manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

You can spread an ideology only by bombs. Either by real bombs or love bombs (manipulation).

You don't have to believe in Gods of democracy. Vote them in!

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.

You either play the game by its rules, or by someone's else.

You know I love you. You're the only one." "She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

You may feel scared when starting again. Pull out your bravery and blaze a new life.

You must stay vigilant … You must take care of yourselves and not rely on the whims of great men to decide your destiny, for that is when you will be deceived—not with a threat with a treat.

Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

Your emotions control almost the entire perception and manipulation of the world.

You will do 90% of everything in the relationship. The 10% they give is only when they want something.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

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.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

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

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion.

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.

Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.