When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
The same way you can manipulate your environment to encourage sleep, you can also do it to wake up.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.
Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
Scott Skiles was a master tactician - they're all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X's-and-O's standpoint.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.
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.
What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.
Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
Sudhir Mishra is one the finest directors; he knows how to manipulate an actor's emotion, sensibilities and expressions.
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.
Gandhiji knew the mind of the British well and that's why he was able to manipulate them.
The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.
What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.
As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.
The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.
I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
I do believe that Russia did and will continue to try and manipulate Americans' perspective on a whole variety of issues.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives - that's an immense amount of power.
I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.
A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.
If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.
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