A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect,… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Dr. Stern’s explanation of how to identify this kind of covert emotional control and abuse, and how to resist it, is a… — Robin Stern Copy Share Image
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
