Quotes About Manipulation

Live snakes? ' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-' 'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.

I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here...asshole. Here...until...Jean gets back.

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him.

Belay this. We don't have to decide anything now. Just...think on what I said. I didn't bring you in here for negotiations." "What did you bring me here for?" "Noise," she whispered, starting to pull his tunic off. "Lots and lots of noise.

You seem to have a real talent for improvised dishonesty.

You know who else thought lightly of them, once? The Falconer.

I have a rule of thumb—if you have a puzzle and the answers are elegant and simple, it means someone is trying to fuck you over.

Once a Big Lie was let out in the world, it seemed to grow on its own and needed little tending or worry to bend to the situation.

So now we've got Requin thinking that Stragos is out to get him. I've never helped precipitate a civil war before. This should be fun.

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more

As they entered the house, Adam realized that people never gave away their hearts, however willing or desperate or lonely they were. Hearts always had to be taken. By force or trickery. Love was murder, the infliction of death by cardiac theft, and the alternative was even worse.

Lying, like marksmanship and tomato growing, got easier with practice. He

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.

The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. "HFT algos reduce the value of resting orders and increase the value of how fast orders can be placed and cancelled," wrote Nanex researcher Eric Hunsader. "This results in the illusion of liquidity. We can't understand why this is allowed to continue, because at the core, it is pure manipulation.

He's trying to control me, and he wants to use his religion to do that. Religion isn't just a power word- the word is power itself.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.