Quotes About Manipulating People

#1. Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we'd help them achieve what is best for them. We'd also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

Billy Graham

#2. Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Cheryl Hines

#3. I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

Kristin Cashore

#4. I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind ... you'll see that. -Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#5. I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Ralph Fiennes

#6. I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.

Nigel Cole

#7. Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Madonna Ciccone

#8. It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.

Cate Tiernan

#9. Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

Linda Ellerbee

#10. I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.

Jason Terry

#12. Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

Kaskade

#13. By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

Terence McKenna

#14. However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable.

Allie Brosh

#15. The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

Penn Jillette

#17. The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

George Will

#19. People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.

Wylie Dufresne

#20. I've got to quit trying to play the Holy Spirit's role by forcing, manipulating, talking, and programming people into the change I want to see. Instead I've got to spend more time praying that the Holy Spirit would come into their lives and regenerate them.

Francis Chan

#21. The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.

Alan Keyes

#22. I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.

Larry Kirshbaum

#23. I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

Steve Earle

#24. What they do not realize - and what you must realize - is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.

Jay Leno

#26. People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

Tim Henman

#27. Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
our policy against narcotics
like any public policy
comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

Joel Miller

#28. The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

Bella Abzug

#29. If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Matthew Weiner

#30. I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

#32. You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.

Eli Siegel

#33. I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

Melinda Clarke

#34. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Benjamin Disraeli