Top 82 Manipulate Others Quotes
#1. 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
#2. After all, true power was the ability to manipulate others into wanting to do what you wanted them to do.
Marissa Honeycutt
#3. People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
Caroline Myss
#4. That's because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you." "I'm not entirely sure about that," Emma said. "Only kidding!" said Horace. "It's to buy clothes, of course.
Ransom Riggs
#5. True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.
Myles Munroe
#6. When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
Frederick Lenz
#7. The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.
Ransom Riggs
#8. When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Charles Eisenstein
#9. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus
Brennan Manning
#10. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles R. Swindoll
#11. Through ... lies you try to run your life and manipulate others ... Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship ...
Wm. Paul Young
#12. One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
Sylvia Plath
#13. It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#14. It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf
#15. The distinction between government, industry, science and medicine have become blurred.
T. Colin Campbell
#16. What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.
David Icke
#17. 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
#18. Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey
Todd Brendan Fahey
#19. Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it's the ability to manipulate concepts.
Leslie Lamport
#20. When you know what someone wants, it's easy to manipulate them.
Nora Sakavic
#21. It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.
Kip Thorne
#22. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.
John Gerzema
#23. We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
Shakti Gawain
#24. 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
#25. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.
Lundy Bancroft
#26. Given the fact that he'd had only the barest of plans upon arriving in Arendelle, the end result was something of a miracle. True, he'd had to lie, manipulate, and con his way to this point, but that was just part of the game. And it turned out he played the game very, very well.
Walt Disney Company
#28. Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
Chevy Chase
#29. Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#30. This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.
Groucho Marx
#31. In your mindfulness practice, notice how often, without thinking, you try to manipulate, control, or exploit others - sometimes in tiny and apparently unimportant ways.
Karen Armstrong
#32. Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
Wayne Dyer
#33. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
John Kramer
#34. Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
David Foster Wallace
#39. To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
Alfred De Vigny
#40. I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill
#41. You can't manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.
Trish Mercer
#42. You need to be able to control it, otherwise it'll always control you," he said. "It'll scare you and manipulate you until you go crazy, die, or they find the cure. And guess which one of those things will propably happen first.
Alexandra Bracken
#43. I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.
Travie McCoy
#44. Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.
Robert Englund
#45. Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Janet E. Morris
#46. the editor who understands continuum of movement has an additional tool to manipulate the intensity of scenes and sequences.
Bruce Block
#47. Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good.
Margaret Atwood
#48. No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.
Masha Gessen
#49. 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
#50. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.
Evangeline Walton
#51. A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz
#52. If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
James Purefoy
#53. 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
#54. The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you
Hisham Fawzi
#55. When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. 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
#57. Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with ... Stop trying to steer the river.
Deepak Chopra
#58. When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
Dave Grohl
#59. 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
#60. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
Mooji
#61. Okay, so you can manipulate the way you look, and you can read minds, and you can see the future?" I really hoped she couldn't see everything. Like private moments and, well, basically that exactly.
Angela McPherson
#62. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
Hina Hashmi
#63. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.
Ron Paul
#65. Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.
T.S. Pettibone
#66. Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.
Christie Golden
#67. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.
Alexander Lowen
#68. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Rob Bell
#69. You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
Will.i.am
#70. The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
Chris Riddell
#71. As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.
Henri Nouwen
#72. In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
Maggie Gallagher
#73. Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.
J.K. Rowling
#74. 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
#75. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
Veronica Roth
#76. Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.
John Stossel
#77. When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.
Stephanie Lahart
#78. But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you - the social reformers - see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
Isaiah Berlin
#79. No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
Paulo Coelho
#80. [A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .
C. Wright Mills
#81. 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
#82. Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.
Ben Bernanke
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