Quotes About Manipulate

I have no use for it. My will needs no amplifying. My will shapes worlds. The amulet was fashioned for one like you with no will of which to speak." "Just because we can't manipulate reality with our thoughts doesn't mean we don't have will. Maybe we do shape reality, just on a different scale, and you don't see it.

To people schooled in the humanistic tradition, the manipulation of human behavior by some sort of conscious technique seems incorrigibly wicked, in spite of the obvious fact that we all go around trying to manipulate one another's behavior all the time, by whatever means come to hand.

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.

Othman reflected, as he undid his belt to his leather trousers that it was so easy to manipulate them once they had the first taste.

It's quite common, Shem. The younger a psychic is, the stronger their ability. Perhaps you need a new vizier now, another young boy, or girl, who's starry-eyed and easy to manipulate." "I won't listen to this!" Shem snapped. "Just get on with it! I only have one vizier, and that's you. I don't believe you mean what you say. You can't have changed that much.

have such complete understanding and command over nature that we can radically manipulate and reengineer it with minimal risk to the natural systems that sustain us.

One so often hears people say, "I just can't handle it," when they reject a biblical image of God as Father, as Mother, as Lord or Judge; God as lover, as angry or jealous, God on a cross. I find this choice of words revealing, however real the pain they reflect: if we seek a God we can "handle," that will be exactly what we get. A God we can manipulate, suspiciously like ourselves, the wideness of whose mercy we've cut down to size.

In order to free the fiction of the sovereign State – in other words, the whims of those who manipulate it – from every wholesome restriction, all sociopolitical movements tending in this direction invariably try to cut the ground from under the religions. For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.

I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings; they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.

is paid according to some metrics that do not necessarily reflect the health of his company; these he can manipulate, hide risks, get the bonus, then retire

there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

You see, there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

You see, there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world. Goddard is of the second kind.

There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making the environment more and more inarticulate, impossible to understand and difficult to manipulate.

Young and enthusiastic, which often came pre-packaged with idealism. That should make them easy to manipulate.