Manipulate Quotes - Page 15

• A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

  Sol Stein

  Jobs, Skeletons, People

  Sol Stein (2005). “Other People”, p.168, iUniverse

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• The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

  Laszlo Bock

  Opportunity, Focus, Purpose

  Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

  Trisha

  Validation, People, Trying

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• To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

  Mark Leibovich

  Light, People, Psychology

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• The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of others. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works.

  Gary Zukav

  Journey, Personality, Soul

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• There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Choices, Manipulation, Made

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• Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Parent, Guilt

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• If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Jobs

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

  Leon Panetta

  Games, Play, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.

  Ted Gup

  Rogues, Benefits, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.

  Clint Howard

  Fall, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Caring, Tyrants

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• Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

  Albert Bandura

  Past, Ideas, People

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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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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• When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Home, Simple

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• When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Lying, People

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• It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and disagreements between our countries in NATO and within the United States or any other Western European country. And it's something the United States obviously must be on guard against.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, Effort, Democracy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

  George Takei

  People, Democracy, Manipulation

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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• The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent?

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When people know what you want, they can then manipulate that to achieve the end that they seek. It's far more interesting and valuable to bear witness to a scene and make good relationships without explicitly seeking something. You're more likely to obtain a far richer and honest experience that way.

  Anjan Sundaram

  People, Good Relationship, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

  Mooji

  Giving Up, Giving, Trying

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.351, New Harbinger Publications

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• Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

  Charlie Huston

  Thinking, Behaviour, Diplomacy

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• I killed your friends.” – Abigail “And I’m not happy about that. But your head wasn’t screwed on right. It’s easy to let the enemies in and listen to them sometimes, especially when they’re pretending to be your best friends who only want the best for you. At least that’s what they claim. They’re insidious bastards, telling you what you want to hear and using your emotions to manipulate you think doing their bidding.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Enemy, Bidding

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