A Quote by Leslie Lamport

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

Leslie Lamport

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Ability Concepts Language Manipulate Thinking

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Leslie Lamport
American - Scientist
Born: February 7, 1941

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

Peter Greenaway

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Gary Zukav

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Ahmed Zewail

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Joan Didion

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

Brad Willis

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

Nipsey Russell

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Scarlett Johansson

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Bruce Sterling

The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

Frederick Lenz

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

Muriel Barbery

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

Sebastian Thrun

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

Amishi Jha

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

Frederick Lenz

It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.