Top 35 Don't Manipulate Quotes
#1. Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
Andy Mineo
#3. I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.
Dennis Hopper
#5. We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style' ... and I love it!
Shawn Hatosy
#6. Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don't act like a bully. Don't hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live ...
L.R. Knost
#7. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan
#8. When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
Marci Shimoff
#9. After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Steve Toltz
#10. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLillo
#11. 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
#12. Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.
Angelique Kidjo
#13. Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.
Tom Colicchio
#14. I don't believe in love at all," he returns, equally quiet. "It's just a name people give the endorphins that spring up after some really hot fucking, and the justification they use to manipulate the shit out of each other afterward.
Ann Aguirre
#15. I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late.
Cameron Dokey
#16. I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.
Billy Graham
#17. If I don't believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. I believe in God ... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.
V.C. Andrews
#19. 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
#20. Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.
Melody Beattie
#21. If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
Pele
#22. Don't be ridiculous," Mg. Aviosky assured her as Magicians Katter and Hughes studied Mg. Thane lying on the floor by the light of four candles. "The only one who can manipulate Emery Thane's future is Emery Thane himself.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#23. Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
Orson Scott Card
#28. Our daughter is not going to an academy." I MISS MY SON, her sign had read. "Period. I don't care if she's tier one. I don't care if she's the first tier zero in history and can manipulate space-time while shooting lasers from her belly button. She is not going to an academy.
Marcus Sakey
#29. I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
John Cassavetes
#30. I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
Susan Straight
#31. Because she's going to help you understand something. I'm not yours to taunt. Don't think I haven't noticed the way you try to manipulate me. I invented that game.
C.J. Roberts
#32. 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
#33. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
Veronica Roth
#34. Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?
Orson Scott Card
#35. I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
Paula Danziger
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