Quotes About Manipulation

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

Never give a sucker an even break.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.

Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

What I always liked about 'Sunny' whenever it approached any sort of hot-button issue is that, ultimately, what the characters felt about it could change at any given instant depending on what benefited them the most personally.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

the Raj could also dangle jobs before the educated unemployed, councils before the ambitious, and titles before the rich and the vain.