The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.
Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.
If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
When it comes to the look of a character, it plays a very important role in shaping up a character's personality.
You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
I will give full credit to the 'Indian Idol' platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.
One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.
Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.
Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.
What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.
What can I say? I was there at the right place and with the right people. My theatre background helped a lot in shaping my comic streak.
But oh! each visitation
Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
My shaping spirit of Imagination.
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.
Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.
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