Quotes About Manipulation

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

It's mostly the coaches the refs don't like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they're against his team, playing mind games.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

I won't divulge the details, but there's a way to call somebody's phone and have whatever number you want appear on the caller I.D. so that the call you're making appears to be coming from someone else.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

When you can use forged photograph of Manoj Tiwari then all your claims are false. The whole party and their thinking is fake.

I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like a table, or it looks like a photograph of a table. Engineers do that with sound.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.