People Who Try To Manipulate Quotes

#1. After all..., I will sleep well.

Deyth Banger

#2. The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Michael Gungor

#3. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.

Dan Lyons

#4. If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens

Lily Allen

#5. Little leaks sink the ship.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Live each day like your hair's on fire!

Christina Waters

#7. These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.

Nikki Rowe

#8. When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

Steve Wozniak

#9. No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

Penn Jillette

#10. We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.

Alexander McCall Smith

#11. The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Andrew Dickson White

#12. 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

#13. One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Steven Blum

#14. You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

Byron Katie

#15. Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?

Anne Lamott

#16. 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

#17. I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

George Mason

#18. The beans are done when at least five of them taste tender and are cooked through. One bean can be a fucking liar so taste a few.

Thug Kitchen

#19. And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

#20. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.

John Steinbeck

#21. In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed. What matters is not methods or techniques but a sensitivity to problems, and a consuming passion for them; or, as the Greeks said, the gift of wonder.

Karl Popper

#22. It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

Cynthia Lummis