Manipulate Quotations

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

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.

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

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

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

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.

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

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.

I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes.

On the application side, we are making it easier to manipulate the process and visualize the exam results.

One of Jones' defining characteristics was his knowledge of the political levers on campus and his ability to manipulate them to cause real actions to be taken.

No pharmaceutical company that is straightforward and honest and would not want to manipulate data would have any problem with this.

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

Harry Reid is not an honest broker in this debate and has proven he will manipulate the issue at any cost.

Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

I can't imagine any other Canadian prime minister trying to manipulate public opinion by hiding the caskets of fallen soldiers. He hopes that out of sight is out of mind. Canadians are not going to accept that.

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

What you see above is not simply sloppy polling; it's a direct manipulation of the survey to create their desired results. The voters in Houston deserve to know about these deceptive antics to manipulate these polls.

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.

He tried to manipulate me into his little plan, and I wouldn't fall for (it).

He was totally illogical. I had to fight through his personality to get him to do what I wanted him to do. I could never just tell him what to do. I always had to make him think everything was his idea. I'd manipulate him until he'd suggest something and I would immediately agree:

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

I think the SEC is very likely trying to understand what industry practices are and see if these guys have the potential to manipulate earnings.

Our clients take our database and compress, compile and manipulate it to their specific requirements.

I think rivalries don't just happen anymore. They've got to be created on the floor. I think a couple coaches could get together and manipulate the situation but that would be short-lived. I think what happens on the floor creates the rivalry: a buzzer-beater, a double-overtime game, a couple games down to the wire.

We need a full accounting of the Bush administration's spending on advertising, PR, and fake news. It's time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional role as a counterweight to the executive branch and permanently cut off funding for covert propaganda. We must ensure that taxpayer money isn't being spent by the White House to secretly manipulate the American public.

The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.

We have tried to work with the White House, ... We have tried to do it in private. We've tried to do it attorney to attorney in a responsible manner. We have objected on several occasions that they were trying to manipulate the press and us by waiting until testimony had happened before relevant documents had been produced. Supposedly, then, the story would become old news ... and the same thing with regard to depositions. We're not going to tolerate that.

We have also agreed that in other places there may be a need to manipulate ways they (elephants) use their space and interact with biodiversity.

That's what Hollywood films do. They tell you this is a tender moment. Now we want you to cry. I refuse to manipulate the audience that way.

We don't endeavor to manipulate the bond market to act as a proxy, ... The major reason is we wouldn't know how.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

To be a girl is to be sweet, to be a sugar or a honey, to have dolls, to play house and be the mother. To be a girl is not to fight, but to wheedle and cajole, to manipulate behind the scenes and deviously control by being pretty and coquettish.

You don't realize how bad these people are. They can manipulate you to do just about anything.

Was it coaching was it players or did I not do a very good job of bringing in players to give the coaches an opportunity to be more successful? I have to look at that hard. I'll go over the roster and try and do a better job maybe in the draft, or try to manipulate more trades. We will try to get more players in here to get it done.

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

We'll be less predictable, so it will be harder for teams to practice to defend us, but we are what we are. In the old days we'd hand the ball to the back, and he'd run up the middle. Now there will be some options, but we'll still spread the field, let Brandon manipulate the ball to different receivers and run a little bit. Hopefully we can generate some big plays.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

Don't let politicians manipulate you to make disorder. The final results will come.

With film, what you see is what you get and you can't manipulate the data to try to see it a little better.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

The strategic petroleum reserve is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day. This is a price problem. We don't want to manipulate energy markets.

The taxpayers of this country have a right to know whether or not their tax dollars were, or are, being used to manipulate the news, falsify intelligence or mislead the public.

The schemes perpetrated by these online data brokers are intolerable and our intent is to put an end to these practices. These online data brokers attempt to manipulate our customer service resources and detract from service provided to legitimate customers.

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

We did a lot of work around integration with this release because we realize compliance is a major priority for our customers. We can collect and manipulate configuration data very well and now we can integrate that into other products.

Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Provenza transcribed every minute of those hours on a computer. That allowed him to manipulate the information in his head, very much like Mozart, I would think,

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

When someone sues outside their marriage, it's sometimes a way ... to manipulate public perceptions to try to get somebody to be intimidated into a settlement that you otherwise might not have gotten.

Despite the government's attempts to manipulate the vote, it does seem clear that the people have voted for change.

That's going to change, ... We're going to put eyes, ears and sensory organs on our computers and our networks in absolutely unprecedented ways. We're going to ask them to observe and manipulate the physical world on our behalf.

They studied it. You can't manipulate a law unless you know how it works. And they were in the process of manipulating it, well past the point of breaking it, when we caught them.

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Technology is opening up so many more things for us that just weren't around previously. These pieces of software allow us to manipulate the information and analyze it a lot more,

The playing encompasses ... How to build words, take words apart, manipulate numbers, add, subtract, multiply, divide.

Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery.

This is a crane that allows you to look at objects and manipulate them very precisely, more so than you could with any existing type of crane.

This is an absolutely critical gift at this moment. There's some tremendously exciting observations being made about ways to manipulate the immune system to help our cancer patients.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

This is a price problem, ... We don't want to manipulate energy markets.

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

If people we're really trying to manipulate earnings you would think they would have done a better job.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law.

The Attorney General's Office is committed to maintaining the integrity of New Jersey's gaming industry by aggressively pursuing casino-related crime and prosecuting those who attempt to manipulate financial instruments to illegally gamble in New Jersey casinos,

Anyone who chooses to do anything that alters the outcome of the positions in this race or in the Chase, we will act quickly and severely, ... If we see anyone attempting to manipulate the outcome of this race, the Chase, or any race from here on out, we will handle it. You've never seen that here, and you never will.

I try to show them that tennis is more a case of problem solving. When you're playing a match, in order to succeed, you have to find a way to manipulate the ball to win the point and the match.

This is just another example of similar news we've seen in these past days, meant to manipulate and impose pressure on the (Serbian) government.