#manipulate

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. ↗

— Sunny Murray

#beats #between #deep #difference #enough

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. ↗

— George Orwell

#george-bush #ignorance #intelligence #manipulate #war

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#how #i #la #manipulates #music

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#does #empowers #knows #manipulates #sort

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#black #does #doing #fatale #femme

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ↗

— Dario Argento

#first #manipulate #place #right #should

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#band #battle #business #creeps #fight